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Evaluation of Automatic Formant Tracking Method Using Fourier Ridges

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This paper develops a formant tracking technique based on Fourier ridges detection. This work aims at improving the performance of formant tracking algorithms. In this method, we have introduced a continuity constraint based on the computation of the centre of gravity for a set of formant candidates, which leads to link a frame of speech with its neighbours and thus improves the robustness of tracking. The formant trajectories obtained by the algorithm proposed are compared with those of a hand-edited formant Arabic database, created especially for this work, and those given by Praat with LPC data.

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This work is supported by the CMCU: Comité Mixte Franco-Tunisien de Coopération Universitaire (Research Project CMCU, 07G Code 1112).

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  1. Unité de Recherche Traitement du Signal, Traitement de l’Image et Reconnaissance de Formes (99/UR/1119), Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, BP. 37, Le Belvédère 1002, Tunis, Tunisia

    Imen Jemaa & Kaïs Ouni

  2. Equipe Parole, LORIA, BP 239, 54506, Vandœuvre-lès-nancy, France

    Imen Jemaa & Yves Laprie

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Jemaa, I., Ouni, K. & Laprie, Y. Evaluation of Automatic Formant Tracking Method Using Fourier Ridges. Cogn Comput 2, 170–179 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-010-9055-2

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