Title :
New method for extracting speech formants using LPC phase spectrum
Author :
Cai Jinhai ; Jiang Gangji ; Zhang Lihe
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Hangzhou Univ., China
Abstract :
A new method for formant extraction using the LPC phase spectrum is proposed, which is especially effective in finding merged peaks. The bandwidth of a formant is easily calculated from the magnitude of the third derivative of the LPC phase spectrum.
Keywords :
linear predictive coding; speech coding; LPC phase spectrum; bandwidth; formant extraction; merged peaks; speech formants;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19931390
