Parallel auditory filtering by sustained and transient channels separates coarticulated vowels and consonants

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 301-318

  Cohen, Michael A ^a   Grossberg, Stephen ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COARTICULATED CONSONANTS; COARTICULATED SPEECH; COARTICULATED VOWELS; PARALLEL AUDITORY FILTERING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0031189777     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.593304     Document Type: Article

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