A method for fundamental frequency estimation and voicing decision: Application to infant utterances recorded in real acoustical environments

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-214

  Nakatani, Tomohiro ^a   Amano, Shigeaki ^a   Irino, Toshio ^b   Ishizuka, Kentaro ^a   Kondo, Tadahisa ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dominance spectrum; Fundamental frequency estimation; Infant speech; Instantaneous frequency; Voicing decision

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND RECORDING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DOMINANCE SPECTRUM; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; INFANT SPEECH; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY; VOICING DECISIONS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 38649087695     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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