Voice source analysis is an important but difficult issue for speech processing. In this talk, three aspects of voice source
analysis recently developed at LIMSI (Orsay, France) and FPMs (Mons, Belgium) are discussed. In a first part, time domain
and spectral domain modelling of glottal flow signals are presented. It is shown that the glottal flow can be modelled as
an anticausal filter (maximum phase) before the glottal closing, and as a causal filter (minimum phase) after the glottal
closing. In a second part, taking advantage of this phase structure, causal and anticausal components of the speech signal
are separated according to the location in the Z-plane of the zeros of the Z-Transform (ZZT) of the windowed signal. This
method is useful for voice source parameters analysis and source-tract deconvolution. Results of a comparative evaluation
of the ZZT and linear prediction for source/tract separation are reported. In a third part, glottal closing instant detection
using the phase of the wavelet transform is discussed. A method based on the lines of maximum phase in the time-scale plane
is proposed. This method is compared to EGG for robust glottal closing instant analysis.