A tandem algorithm for pitch estimation and voiced speech segregation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2067-2079

  Hu, Guoning ^a,b   Wang, DeLiang ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AOL Truveo Video Search   (United States)

^c The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational auditory scene analysis (CASA); Iterative procedure; Pitch estimation; Speech segregation; Tandem algorithm

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; PITCH ESTIMATION; SPEECH SEGREGATION; TANDEM ALGORITHM;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77955695149     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2041110     Document Type: Article

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