Wavelet maxima dispersion for breathy to tense voice discrimination

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1170-1179

  Kane, John ^a   Gobl, Christer ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Glottal source; phonation types; voice quality; wavelets

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH; EDGE LOCATION; GLOTTAL SOURCE; NEW PARAMETERS; PHONATION TYPES; VOICE QUALITY; WAVELET MAXIMA; WAVELETS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; SPEECH; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 84875035728     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2245653     Document Type: Article

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