A Comparison of some techniques used to assess vocal individuality

Bioacoustics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 169-188

  Terry, A M R ^a,b   McGregor, P K ^b   Peake, T M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conservation; Cross correlation; Discriminant function; Individuality; Qualitative analysis

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0035039844     PISSN: 09524622     EISSN: 21650586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2001.9753461     Document Type: Article

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