High-Pitch Formant Estimation by Exploiting Temporal Change of Pitch

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 171-186

  Wang, Tianyu T ^a,b   Quatieri, Thomas F ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Formant estimation; high pitch effects; linear prediction; spectrotemporal analysis; temporal change of pitch

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008561872     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2024732     Document Type: Article

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