Empirical Mode Decomposition for adaptive AM-FM analysis of Speech: A Review

Speech Communication

Volumn 88, Issue , 2017, Pages 39-64

  Sharma, Rajib ^a   Vignolo, Leandro ^b   Schlotthauer, Gastón ^c   Colominas, M A ^c   Rufiner, H Leonardo ^b   Prasanna, S R M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

AM FM; EMD; LP; MFCC; Speech Processing; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; LINEAR PREDICTION; MFCC; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION; SPEECH SIGNALS; WAVELET;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009788345     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2016.12.004     Document Type: Review

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