Vowel onset point detection for low bit rate coded speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1894-1903

  Vuppala, Anil Kumar ^a   Yadav, Jainath ^a   Chakrabarti, Saswat ^a   Rao, K Sreenivasa ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Glottal closure region; spectral energy; speech coders; vowel onset point (VOP)

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR POINT; BROADCAST NEWS; CODE EXCITED LINEAR PREDICTION; DETECTION METHODS; EXCITATION SOURCES; FULL RATE; GLOTTAL CLOSURE REGION; LINEAR PREDICTION; LOW BIT RATE; MODULATION SPECTRUM; SPECTRAL ENERGY; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPEECH CODERS; SPEECH RATES; SPEECH SIGNALS; TIMIT DATABASE; VOWEL ONSET POINT;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH CODING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84860875011     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2191284     Document Type: Article

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