A parametric model of the vocal tract area function for vowel and consonant simulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3231-3254

  Story, Brad H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MODIFICATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES;

NASAL TRACT; NEUTRAL AREA FUNCTIONS; VOCAL TRACT AREA; VOCAL-TRACT DATA;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSONANT; LARYNX; MODEL; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOCAL CORD; VOWEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 18744394362     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1869752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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