Synthesis fidelity and time-varying spectral change in vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 886-895

  Assmann, Peter F ^a   Katz, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; LABORATORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

CASCADE FORMANT MODELS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; FORMANT SYNTHESIS; TIME VARYING SPECTRAL CHANGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNTHESIS; TIME; VOWEL;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 13544261497     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1852549     Document Type: Article

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