Marginal energy density over the low frequency range as a feature for voiced/non-voiced detection in noisy speech signals

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 350, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 698-716

  Jain, Pooja ^a   Pachori, Ram Bilas ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INDORE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION ACCURACY; ENERGY DENSITY; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; LOW FREQUENCY RANGE; NOISE ENVIRONMENTS; NOISY SPEECH SIGNALS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; TIME-FREQUENCY PLANES;

WHITE NOISE; WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84875532258     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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