Improved automatic detection of creak

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1028-1047

  Kane, John ^a   Drugman, Thomas ^b   Gobl, Christer ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Creak; Creaky voice; Glottal closure instant; Glottal source; Vocal fry

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; CREAK; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; GLOTTAL CLOSURE INSTANT; GLOTTAL SOURCE; IMPULSE-LIKE EXCITATIONS; VOCAL FRY;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84875958321     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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