Source characteristics of aged voice assessed from long-term average spectra

Journal of Voice

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 472-479

  Linville, Sue Ellen ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis of voice; Long term average spectral analysis; Vocal aging; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECORDING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH; VOICE; AGE; GLOTTIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0036982798     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(02)00122-4     Document Type: Article

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