Quasi closed phase glottal inverse filtering analysis with weighted linear prediction

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 596-607

  Airaksinen, Manu ^a   Raitio, Tuomo ^a   Story, Brad ^b   Alku, Paavo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed phase analysis; GIF; Glottal inverse filtering; Speech analysis; Weighted linear prediction

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL PERIOD; GIF; INVERSE FILTERING; LINEAR PREDICTION; LINEAR PREDICTION MODELS; PHASE ANALYSIS; SOURCE-FILTER MODELS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST;

FORECASTING; LINGUISTICS; MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84898074254     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2013.2294585     Document Type: Article

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