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Fundamental frequency estimation using modified higher order moments and multiple windows

Pawi, A ; Sharif Univesity of Technology | 2011

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. Publisher: 2011
  3. Abstract:
  4. This paper proposes a set of higher-order modified moments for estimation of the fundamental frequency of speech and explores the impact of the speech window length on pitch estimation error. The pitch extraction methods are evaluated in a range of noise types and SNRs. For calculation of errors, pitch reference values are calculated from manually-corrected estimates of the periods obtained from laryngograph signals. The results obtained for the 3 rd and 4 th order modified moment compare well with methods based on correlation and magnitude difference criteria and the YIN method; with improved pitch accuracy and less occurrence of large errors
  5. Keywords:
  6. Fundamental frequencies ; Fundamental frequency estimation ; Higher order moments ; Multiple windows ; Noise types ; Pitch ; Pitch estimation ; Pitch extraction ; Reference values ; Errors ; Natural frequencies ; Speech ; Continuous speech recognition
  7. Source: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH ; 2011 , Pages 1965-1968 ; 19909772 (ISSN)
  8. URL: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/38356