Noise robust F0 determination and epoch-marking algorithms

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2555-2569

  Kotnik, Bojan ^a   Höge, Harald ^b   Kačič, Zdravko ^c  

^a Ultra Doo   (Slovenia)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Epoch marking; Fundamental frequency; Glottal closure instant; Voicing detection

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EPOCH MARKING; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; GLOTTAL CLOSURE INSTANT; VOICING DETECTION;

BACKPROPAGATION; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOLAR BUILDINGS; SPECTROMETERS; SPEECH PROCESSING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

VITERBI ALGORITHM;

EID: 67651085324     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.04.017     Document Type: Article

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