IEEE Transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing · 1976 · 138 citations · 7 references
Language StudiesLinguisticsAcousticsPhoneticsPsychoacousticsAcoustic PhoneticsExperimental PhoneticsSpeech AcousticsSpeech RecognitionVoice ProcessingMaximum Likelihood InferencePhonetic MeasurementPitch DeterminationPitch EstimationPitch ModelingSpeech Signal AnalysisVoice CharacterizationVoice Source Analysis
A method for estimating the pitch period of voiced speech sounds is developed based on a maximum likelihood (ML) formulation. It is capable of resolution finer than one sampling period and is shown to perform better in the presence of noise than the cepstrum method.
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