The interaction of glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length in judgements of speaker size, sex, and age

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3177-3186

  Smith, David R R ^a   Patterson, Roy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; AUDITION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

AGE CATEGORIZATION; GLOTTAL PULSE RATE (GPR); SPEAKER SIZE; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH (VTL);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 27744442493     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2047107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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