Cascade prediction filters with adaptive zeros to track the time-varying resonances of the vocal tract

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Vargas, Julio ^a   McLaughlin, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive prediction; Adaptive zeros; Formant tracking; instantaneous frequency; Vocal tract resonance (VTR)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PREDICTION; ADAPTIVE ZEROS; FORMANT TRACKING; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY; VOCAL TRACT RESONANCE (VTR);

ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; RESONANCE; VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 64849106911     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.907573     Document Type: Article

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