Automatic pre-segmentation of running speech improves the robustness of several acoustic voice measures

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 101-108

  Bäckström, Tom ^a   Lehto, Laura ^a,b   Alku, Paavo ^a   Vilkman, Erkki ^b,c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Continuous speech; Speech analysis; Vocal loading

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TAPE RECORDER;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SPEECH;

EID: 0142242156     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14015430310015237     Document Type: Article

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