Re: First moment of a spectrum (=?X-UNKNOWN?Q?T=F3th_L=E1szl=F3?= )

Subject: Re: First moment of a spectrum
From:    =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?T=F3th_L=E1szl=F3?=  <tothl(at)INF.U-SZEGED.HU>
Date:    Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:41:21 +0200

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, James W. Beauchamp wrote:

> I have found the centroid to be a very useful parameter for sound
> synthesis, particularly for brass sounds.
> Lately it appears that some researchers are using higher-ordered moments
> for automatic instrument classification.
>
And some researchers used centroid for the approximation of speech
formants. See
Albesano et al.: A Study on the Effect of Adding New Dimensions to
Trajectories in the Acoustic Space, Proc. EuroSpeech'99, pp.1503-1506

               Laszlo Toth
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