Speaker attribution of successive utterances: The role of discontinuities in voice characteristics and prosody

Speech Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-159

  Lublinskaja, V ^a   Sappok, C ^b  

^a PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Intonation; Perceptual organization; Speaker attribution; Voice characteristics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

INTONATION; PROSODY; UTTERANCES; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0030204644     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6393(96)00030-1     Document Type: Article

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