Fitting Mass-Spring Models to Glottal Flow Estimates
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چکیده
We present a straightforward method for estimating the parameters of a physical mass-spring model of the vocal folds using a glottal flow signal. Initial experiments show that the method can successfully be used to model the glottal flow waveform. Parameters obtained can be used to characterise the underlying physical system in, for example, when used as features for speech recognition applications.
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