Design issues for a portable vocal analyzer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1084-1093

  Carullo, Alessio ^a   Vallan, Alberto ^a   Astolfi, Arianna ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic devices; acoustic measurements; acoustic transducers; biomedical acoustics; biomedical equipment; calibration; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; BIOMEDICAL ACOUSTICS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; PORTABLE MICROCONTROLLERS; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CALIBRATION; MICROPHONES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84876028367     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2236724     Document Type: Article

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