Using phonetic feature extraction to determine optimal speech regions for maximising the effectiveness of glottal source analysis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 29-33

  Kane, John ^a   Yanushevskaya, Irena ^a   Dalton, John ^a   Gobl, Christer ^a   Chasaide, Ailbhe Ní ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Glottal source; Phonetic features; Voice quality; Voice source

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ERROR RATE; GLOTTAL SOURCE; OPTIMAL REGIONS; PHONETIC FEATURES; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE SOURCES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84906263810     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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