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Zero-phase inverse filtering for extraction of source characteristics
Research Area: Speech Analysis Year: 1977
Type of Publication: In Proceedings  
Authors: T. Ananthapadmanabha, B. Yegnanarayana  
   
Abstract:
The instants at which significant excitation of vocal tract take place during voicing are referred to as epochs. Epochs and strengths of excitation pulses at epochs are useful in characterizing voice source. Epoch filtering technique proposed by the authors determine epochs from speech waveform. In this paper we propose zero-phase inverse filtering to obtain strengths of excitation pulses at epochs. Zero-phase inverse filter compensates the gross spectral envelope of short-time spectrum of speech without affecting phase characteristics. Linear prediction analysis is used to realize the zero-phase inverse filter. Source characteristics that can be derived from speech using this technique are illustrated with examples.
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