Acoustic parameters for place of articulation identification and classification of Spanish unvoiced stops

Speech Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 369-379

  Torres, M I ^a   Iparraguirre, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acoustic parameters; Acoustic phonetic decoding; Discriminant analysis; phone classifiers; Knowledge based systems; Spanish stop consonants; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ACOUSTIC PHONETIC DECODING; ARTICULATION IDENTIFICATION; AUTOMATIC DISCRIMINANTS ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY CONTEXT CORPUS; SPANISH STOP CONSONANTS; SPANISH UNVOICED STOPS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030170432     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6393(96)00025-8     Document Type: Article

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