A new technique for the estimation of jitter and shimmer of voiced speech signal

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2112-2115

  Shahnaz, C ^a,b   Zhu, W P ^a,b   Ahmad, M O ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circular autocorrelation function; Jitter; Pitch period; Shimmer; Voiced speech

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; JITTER; PATTERN MATCHING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

MODIFIED CIRCULAR AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION (MCACF); SMOOTH PITCH CONTOUR;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 39049147207     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2006.277799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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