Towards objective evaluation of perceived roughness and breathiness: An approach based on mel-frequency cepstral analysis

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 52-59

  Sáenz Lechón, Nicolás ^a   Fraile, Rubén ^a   Godino Llorente, Juan I ^a   Fernández Baíllo, Roberto ^b   Osma Ruiz, Víctor ^a   Gutiérrez Arriola, Juana M ^a   Arias Londoño, Julián D ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Acoustic voice analysis; GRBAS; perceptual voice analysis; voice evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; DYSPHONIA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOICE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHONATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 79959444275     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: 16512022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14015439.2010.517551     Document Type: Article

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