Estimation of Glottal Closing and Opening Instants in Voiced Speech Using the YAGA Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-91

  Thomas, Mark R P ^a   Naylor, Patrick A ^a   Gudnason, Jon ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

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EID: 85008529793     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2157684     Document Type: Article

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