An analysis of general acoustic-phonetic features for Spanish speech produced with the Lombard effect

Speech Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 23-35

  Castellanos, Antonio ^a   Benedí, José Miguel ^b   Casacuberta, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continuous speech; Lombard effect; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; LOMBARD EFFECT;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0030286801     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(96)00042-8     Document Type: Article

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