Event-based method for instantaneous fundamental frequency estimation from voiced speech based on eigenvalue decomposition of the Hankel matrix

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1467-1482

  Jain, Pooja ^a   Pachori, Ram Bilas ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INDORE   (India)

Author keywords

Eigenvalue decomposition; Hankel matrix; Instantaneous fundamental frequency; Speech signal processing

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; FREQUENCY MODULATED; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HANKEL MATRIX; LOW FREQUENCY RANGE; SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84911369306     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2014.2335056     Document Type: Article

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