Perceived pitch of synthesized voice with alternate cycles

Journal of Voice

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 443-459

  Sun, Xuejing ^a   Xu, Yi ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate cycles; Modulation; Pitch; Subharmonic to harmonic ratio; Subharmonics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PITCH; SPEECH; SYNTHESIS; VOICE; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ESOPHAGUS SPEECH; HEARING; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERIODICITY; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH, ALARYNGEAL; TIME FACTORS; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0036988071     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(02)00119-4     Document Type: Article

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