A primary purpose of speech analysis is to extract features or parameters that represent important characteristics of the waveform. The two most basic acoustical speech parameters (in the sense that they are relatable to the physical production of speech and are parameters of the analog vocal tract model) are the formant and fundamental frequency parameters.

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Authors and Affiliations

1. Speech Communications Research Laboratory, Inc., 93109, Santa Barbara, California, USA

   John D. Markel & Augustine H. Gray Jr.

2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, 93106, California, USA

   Augustine H. Gray Jr.

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