Comparison of voice analysis systems for perturbation measurement

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 126-134

  Bielamowicz, Steven ^a,b   Kreiman, Jody ^a   Gerratt, Bruce R ^a   Dauer, Marc S ^a,c   Berke, Gerald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Harmonics to noise ratio; Jitter; Perturbation; Shimmer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VOICE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 0030001218     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3901.126     Document Type: Review

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