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VOICE FEATURES FOR CONTROL: A VOCALIST DEPENDENT METHOD FOR NOISE MEASUREMENT AND INDEPENDENT SIGNALS COMPUTATION

@inproceedings{Fasciani2012VOICEFF,
  title={VOICE FEATURES FOR CONTROL: A VOCALIST DEPENDENT METHOD FOR NOISE MEASUREMENT AND INDEPENDENT SIGNALS COMPUTATION},
  author={Stefano Fasciani},
  year={2012}
}
Information about the human spoken and singing voice is conveyed through the articulations of the individual’s vocal folds and vocal tract. The signal receiver, either human or machine, works at different levels of abstraction to extract and interpret only the relevant context specific information needed. Traditionally in the field of human machine interaction, the human voice is used to drive and control events that are discrete in terms of time and value. We propose to use the voice as a… 
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