A robust pitch detection algorithm for speech signals in a practical noisy environment

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 385-388

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

^a IEEE

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY BANDS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

NON-STATIONARY NOISE; PITCH DETECTION ALGORITHM; SPEECH SIGNALS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 51449102538     PISSN: 15483746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2007.4488611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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