Improved formant frequency estimation from high-pitched vowels by downgrading the contribution of the glottal source with weighted linear prediction

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1610-1613

  Alku, Paavo ^a   Pohjalainen, Jouni ^a   Vainio, Martti ^b   Laukkanen, Anne Maria ^c   Story, Brad ^d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Formants; Linear prediction

Indexed keywords

ALL-POLE MODELING; FORMANT ESTIMATION; FORMANT FREQUENCY; FORMANT FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; FORMANTS; LINEAR PREDICTION; MODEL OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICAL MODELING;

ESTIMATION; LINGUISTICS; MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84878402077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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