The speaker's formant in male voices

Journal of Voice

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 422-428

  Nawka, Tadeus ^a,c   Anders, Lutz Christian ^a   Cebulla, Mario ^a   Zurakowski, David ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connected speech; Critical bands; Fast Fourier transformation; Long term average spectra; Speaker's formant; Spectral slope; Vowel formants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; PITCH; SPEECH; VOICE; VOWEL;

EID: 0030660666     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(97)80038-0     Document Type: Article

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