Vowel-onset detection by vowel-strength measurement, cochlear-nucleus simulation, and multilayer perceptrons

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 1185-1199

  Kortekaas, Reinier W L ^a   Hermes, Dik J ^a   Meyer, Georg F ^b  

^a Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ALGORITHMS; COCHLEA; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030049168     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.414671     Document Type: Article

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