7.5.5. Time Domain Features

Zero-Crossing Rate

The zero-crossing rate is defined as

where

This is a measure of the noisiness of the signal. Thus, unvoiced speech signals have higher zero-crossing values compared to the voiced ones. Temporal curves of variation of the zero-crossing rate from frame to frame may also be informative of the type of signal.

Energy

This is a very simple feature, defined as

and it can be used to discriminate voiced from ...

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