Estimation of glottal closure instants in voiced speech using the DYPSA algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-43

  Naylor, Patrick A ^a   Kounoudes, Anastasis ^a,b   Gudnason, Jon ^a   Brookes, Mike ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Philips College Nicosia   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Closed phase; Glottal closure; Speech processing; Speech segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATIONS; AUTOMATIC ESTIMATIONS; CLOSED-PHASE; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES; DYPSA ALGORITHMS; EXISTING METHODS; GLOTTAL CLOSURE; PROJECTION TECHNIQUES; SLOPE FUNCTIONS; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; VOICED SPEECH;

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ESTIMATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 41049089736     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876878     Document Type: Article

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