Cry baby: Using spectrographic analysis to assess neonatal health status from an infant's cry

Advances in Speech Recognition: Mobile Environments, Call Centers and Clinics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 323-348

  Patil, Hemant A ^a  

^a DHIRUBHAI AMBANI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Acoustic characteristics of normal vs. abnormal infant cries; Asthma; Baby cry analyzers; Dynamic time warping (DTW); Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE); Infant cry; Larynx not developed (Laryngomalacia); Myalgia; Pitch harmonics; Spectral features used for speaker identification and verification; Spectrographic analysis

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EID: 84885730979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5951-5_14     Document Type: Chapter

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