Phase Minimization for Glottal Model Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1080-1090

  Degottex, Gilles ^a   Roebel, Axel ^a   Rodet, Xavier ^a  

^a IRCAM   (France)

Author keywords

glottal closure instants (GCIs); Glottal model; glottal shape; joint estimation; phase minimization; voice analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008008295     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2076806     Document Type: Article

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