Robust pitch estimation using a wavelet variance analysis model

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1216-1223

  Wei, Xiaopeng ^a,b   Zhao, Lasheng ^a,b   Zhang, Qiang ^b   Dong, Jing ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Pitch estimation; Variance analysis; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BABBLE NOISE; EXISTING METHODS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; NOISY SPEECH; PEAK DETECTIONS; PITCH ESTIMATION; PITCH PERIODS; SIMULATION RESULTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WAVELET PARAMETERS; WAVELET VARIANCES;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 60749083171     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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