A new strategy of formant tracking based on dynamic programming

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Xia, Kun ^a   Espy Wilson, Carol ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

CONTINUITY CONSTRAINTS; FORMANT FREQUENCY; FORMANT TRACKING; MINIMUM COST; PERFORMANCE STATISTICS; SECOND PHASE; TIMIT DATABASE;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 85009135405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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