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Use of periodicity and jitter as speech recognition features

Thomson et al., 1998

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11651615873734511626
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Thomson D
Chengalvarayan R
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IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING

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We investigate a class of features related to voicing parameters that indicate whether the vocal chords are vibrating. Features describing voicing characteristics of speech signals are integrated with an existing 38-dimensional feature vector consisting of first and second order …
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