Abstract: Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) have traditionally been used in speaker identification applications. Their use has been extended to speech quality assessment for clinical applications during the last few years. While the significance of such parameters for such an application may not seem clear at first thought, previous research has demonstrated their robustness and statistical significance and, at the same time, their close relationship with glottal noise measurements. This paper includes a review of this parameterization scheme an...
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Speech recognition