Acoustic-phonetic features for the automatic classification of fricatives

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 2217-2235

  Abdelatty Ali, Ahmed M ^a   Van Der Spiegel, Jan ^a   Mueller, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Corticon Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

FRICATIVE CONSONANTS; SPEAKERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0035026755     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1357814     Document Type: Article

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