Estimation of sound pressure levels of voiced speech from skin vibration of the neck

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1386-1394

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; DOSIMETRY; MICROPHONES;

SKIN ACCELERATION LEVELS (SAL); SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS (SPL); VOICE DOSIMETRY;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SKIN; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; VIBRATION; VOICE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECK; PRESSURE; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VIBRATION;

EID: 14844358707     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1850074     Document Type: Article

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