Thresholds for second formant transitions in front vowels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3252-3260

  Kewley Port, Diane ^a   Goodman, Shawn S ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

FORMANT DYNAMICS; FRONT VOWELS; NATURAL SPEECH TOKENS; SECOND FORMANT TRANSITIONS; VOWEL CLASSIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STEADY STATE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 27744441555     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2074667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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