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Cepstral Analysis

Cepstral analysis is a spectral analysis technique that decomposes signals into independent components by inverting the log-magnitude spectrum. Pioneered by Bogert, Healy, and Tukey in 1963, cepstral analysis reveals periodic structure in spectra (pitch, echo patterns) and separates source excitation from filter response. Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) derived from cepstral analysis are the most widely used features in automatic speech recognition, speaker verification, and audio analysis.

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  1. Bogert, B. P., Healy, M. J., & Tukey, J. W. (1963). The quefrency alanysis of time series for echoes: cepstrum, pseudo-autocovariance, cross-cepstrum, and saphe cracking. In Time Series Analysis Research Papers (pp. 209–243). Wiley. link
  2. Davis, S., & Mermelstein, P. (1980). Comparison of parametric representations for monosyllabic word recognition in continuously spoken sentences. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 28(4), 357–366. DOI: 10.1109/TASSP.1980.1163420
  3. Rabiner, L. R., & Juang, B. H. (1993). Fundamentals of Speech Recognition. Prentice-Hall. ISBN: 978-0130156099

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ScholarGateCepstral Analysis (Cepstral Analysis for Spectral Decomposition and Pitch Detection). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/acoustics/cepstral-analysis