Formant Estimation and Tracking

Springer Handbooks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 213-228

  OʼShaughnessy, Douglas ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Formant Tracking; Linear Predictive Code; Pitch Period; Speech Signal; Vocal Tract

Indexed keywords

EID: 85075935019     PISSN: 25228692     EISSN: 25228706     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49127-9_11     Document Type: Chapter

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