A comparative study of glottal open quotient estimation techniques

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1658-1662

  Kane, John ^a   Scherer, Stefan ^b   Morency, Louis Philippe ^b   Gobl, Christer ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Glottal source; Open quotient; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS;

CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; EXCITATION SOURCES; GLOTTAL SOURCE; OPEN QUOTIENT; VOICE QUALITY;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 84906228172     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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