Detection of voice onset time (VOT) for unvoived stops (/p/, /t/, /k/) using the teager energy operator (TEO) for automatic detection of accented english

Report - Helsinki University of Technology, Signal Processing Laboratory

Volumn 46, Issue , 2004, Pages 344-347

  Das, Sharmistha ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OSCILLATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ACCENT DETECTION; BREATHY VOICES; TEAGER ENERGY OPERATOR (TEO); VOICE ONSET TIME (VOT);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 11844288934     PISSN: 14586401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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