An improved method for voice pathology detection by means of a HMM-based feature space transformation

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3100-3112

  Arias Londoño, Julián D ^a,b   Godino Llorente, Juan I ^a   Sáenz Lechón, Nicolás ^a   Osma Ruiz, Víctor ^a   Castellanos Domínguez, Germán ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Dynamic feature space transformation; Hidden Markov models; Minimum classification error; Pathological voice

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; DYNAMIC FEATURES; FEATURE TRANSFORMATIONS; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL CO-EFFICIENT; MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR; PATHOLOGICAL VOICE; STATISTICAL TRANSFORMATION; VOICE PATHOLOGY DETECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79960343078     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.03.019     Document Type: Article

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