Investigation of a glottal related harmonics-to-noise ratio and spectral tilt as indicators of glottal noise in synthesized and human voice signals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1642-1652

  Murphy, Peter J ^a   McGuigan, Kevin G ^b   Walsh, Michael ^c   Colreavy, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GLOTTAL NOISE; HARMONICS-TO-NOISE RATIO (HNR); SPEECH SIGNALS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; MALE; PERIODICITY; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORY; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; VOICE;

EID: 40749105605     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2832651     Document Type: Article

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