A method for automatic detection of vocal fry

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-56

  Ishi, Carlos Toshinori ^a   Sakakibara, Ken Ichi ^b   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^a,c   Hagita, Norihiro ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic detection; Creaky voice; Paralinguistic information; Vocal fry; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CREAKY VOICE; PARALINGUISTIC INFORMATION; VOCAL FRY; VOICE QUALITY;

ACOUSTICS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 64849116831     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.910791     Document Type: Article

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