An implementation of rational wavelets and filter design for phonetic classification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 939-948

  Choueiter, Ghinwa F ^a   Glass, James R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filter design; Phonetic classification; Rational wavelets

Indexed keywords

BAND EFFECTS; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; ENERGY-BASED MEASUREMENTS; FILTER DESIGN; FILTER MATCHING; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEMS; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; PHONETIC CLASSIFICATION; RATIONAL FILTER BANKS; RATIONAL WAVELETS; TREE-STRUCTURED FILTER BANKS; WAVELET SELECTIONS;

DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

FILTER BANKS;

EID: 42449137842     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.889793     Document Type: Article

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