Measurement of vocal doses in speech: Experimental procedure and signal processing

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 181-192

  Švec, Jan G ^a   Popolo, Peter S ^a,b   Titze, Ingo R ^a,b  

^a Denver Center for the Performing Arts   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroglottography; F0 extraction; Sound pressure level; Speech processing; Vocal dose; Vocal loading; Voice accumulation; Voicing detection; Voicing time

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARYNGOGRAPHY; LINGUISTICS; MICROPHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ENERGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH THERAPY; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHONATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 10744230019     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14015430310018892     Document Type: Article

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