Formant frequency estimation of high-pitched vowels using weighted linear prediction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1295-1313

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

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-POLE MODELING; FILTER COEFFICIENTS; FORMANT ESTIMATION; FORMANT FREQUENCY; FORMANT FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; PREDICTION ERRORS; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

LINGUISTICS; MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLES;

FORECASTING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VOCAL CORD; VOICE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84882383984     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4812756     Document Type: Article

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