A narrow band pattern-matching model of vowel perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1044-1055

  Hillenbrand, James M ^a   Houde, Robert A ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PATTERN MATCHING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH;

VOWEL PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; INFORMATION; LEARNING; MEASUREMENT; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037324539     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1513647     Document Type: Article

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