Cepstral Characteristics of Voice in Indian Female Classical Carnatic Singers.
Summary Background The cepstral measures are gaining attention in the voice analysis as it is reported to be strong predictor of voice impairments. As singer's voice is reported to be present with more harmonics, it can be hypothesized that there would be an increase in the value of cepstral paramet...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Voice Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 693 - 696 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Nov2015
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