A temporal-analysis-based pitch estimation system for noisy speech with a comparative study of performance of recent systems

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1112-1124

  Khurshid, Azar ^a   Denham, Susan L ^b  

^a Symbian Software Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; ESTIMATION; HARMONIC GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPEECH PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DAMPED HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; HARMONIC GROUPING; PITCH ESTIMATION; TEMPORAL CODING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 4644223415     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2004.832818     Document Type: Article

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