Improving the accuracy and the robustness of harmonic model for pitch estimation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1936-1940

  Asgari, Meysam ^a   Shafran, Izhak ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental frequency estimation; Robust pitch estimation

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

BACKGROUND NOISE; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MODEL COMPLEXITY; NOISY CONDITIONS; PITCH ESTIMATION; ROBUST ESTIMATION; ROBUST PITCH ESTIMATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84906272538     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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