Robust fundamental frequency estimation in sustained vowels: Detailed algorithmic comparisons and information fusion with adaptive Kalman filtering

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2885-2901

  Tsanas, Athanasios ^a   Zañartu, Matías ^b   Little, Max A ^c   Fox, Cynthia ^d   Ramig, Lorraine O ^e   Clifford, Gari D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^c MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; KALMAN FILTERS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ADAPTIVE KALMAN FILTER; ADAPTIVE KALMAN FILTERING; ELECTRO-GLOTTOGRAPH SIGNALS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYSPHONIA; HEARING; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PROCEDURES; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOICE;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DYSPHONIA; HUMANS; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84900419715     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4870484     Document Type: Article

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