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urn:hdl:2117/100789 Pitch determination of noisy speech using higher order statistics Moreno Bilbao, M. Asunción Rodríguez Fonollosa, José Adrián Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació Telecommunication Statistical analysis Noise Speech analysis and processing Telecomunicació The use of third-order statistics to determine the pitch of a speech signal and how they can eliminate the effect of a wide range of noises, including those generated by periodic sources, are shown. The proposed algorithm is based on the property that higher-order statistics can extract useful information about the statistics of voiced frames, and they can separate speech from noise. Third-order statistics are quite insensitive to most noises (Gaussian, sinusoidal, car noise, etc.) because these noises have a symmetric probability density function, and therefore their third-order cumulants are zero. The algorithm has been tested in noise-corrupted speech, at different levels of signal to noise ratio, and with different kinds of noise. The results show that this new algorithm gives in all the cases a much better estimation of the pitch than the conventional autocorrelation method. Peer Reviewed Postprint (published version) 1992 Conference report http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/225954/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ Open Access . IEEE