Acoustic «breathiness measures» in the description of pathologic voices

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 937-940

  Frohlich, Matthias ^a   Michaelis, Dirk ^a   Werner Strube, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR LEAKAGE; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; NOISE EXCITATION; PATHOLOGICAL VOICE; PERCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTES; REFERENCE GROUP; VOICE QUALITY;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

PATHOLOGY;

EID: 0001394874     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.675420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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