Automatic parametrization of differentiated glottal flow: Comparing methods by means of synthetic flow pulses

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5 I, 1998, Pages 2659-2669

  Strik, Helmer ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FILTER; GLOTTIS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOICE;

EID: 0031839835     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.422786     Document Type: Article

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