Speech perception based on spectral peaks versus spectral shape

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4041-4054

  Hillenbrand, James M ^a   Houde, Robert A ^b   Gayvert, Robert T ^c  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Communications Research   (United States)

^c Gayvert Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; WAVE FILTERS;

FORMANTS; SENTENCES; SOURCE-FILTER SYNTHESIZERS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPE PEAKS; SYLLABLES;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745081506     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2188369     Document Type: Article

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