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John McKenna (CA) receives £5000 Studentship

John McKenna (CA) receives £5000 Studentship (Recipient: Michelle Tooher) from Computing Research Committee, Dublin City University for the devleopment of a Kalman Filter Research Tool for Speech Analysis.

This project is part of ongoing research in automatic speaker characterisation. The aim is to implement a Kalman filter-based automatic glottal closed phase detector and a glottal-source/vocal-tract-filter separation technique as developed by McKenna (2001).

The tool will incorporate a GUI with options which will facilitate further development and experimentation using the above techniques e.g. ARMA analysis, and higher-order modelling of vocal tract dynamics. The tool will also allow quantitative performance analysis of synthetic speech.

References


McKenna,J. (2001), "Kalman Filtering Towards Automatic Speaker Characterisation". PhD. Thesis, University of Edinburgh.