A versatile pitch tracking algorithm: From human speech to killer whale vocalizations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 451-459

  Shapiro, Ari Daniel ^a   Wang, Chao ^b,c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Vlingo Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE LOGARITHMIC; FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; HARMONIC STRUCTURES; HUMAN SPEECH; KILLER WHALE; LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; PITCH DETECTION ALGORITHM; PITCH TRACKING ALGORITHMS; PITCH-TRACKING; TELEPHONE SPEECH; TEMPORAL CHANGE; VOCAL SIGNALS;

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HISTOGRAM; KILLER WHALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 68149089413     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3132525     Document Type: Article

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