Voiced/nonvoiced detection based on robustness of voiced epochs

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 273-276

  Dhananjaya, N ^a   Yegnanarayana, B ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Excitation source; Glottal activity detection; Glottal closure instant; Voiced nonvoiced detection; Zero frequency filtering

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION SOURCES; GLOTTAL ACTIVITY DETECTION; GLOTTAL CLOSURE INSTANT; VOICED/NONVOICED DETECTION; ZERO FREQUENCY;

SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78149277207     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2009.2038507     Document Type: Article

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