Resonator-based creaky voice detection

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1590-1593

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Creak; Glottal source; Vocal fry; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

CREAK; GLOTTAL SOURCE; LINEAR PREDICTION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; RESIDUAL SIGNALS; VOCAL FRY; VOICE DETECTION; VOICE QUALITY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84878409790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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