Intelligibility of normal speech I: Global and fine-grained acoustic-phonetic talker characteristics

Speech Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 255-272

  Bradlow, Ann R ^a   Torretta, Gina M ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC PHONETIC TALKER CHARACTERISTICS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0030379379     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(96)00063-5     Document Type: Article

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