Idiosyncrasy of nasal sounds in human speaker identification and their acoustic properties

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 233-235

  Amino, Kanae ^a   Sugawara, Tsutomu ^a   Arai, Takayuki ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cepstral distance; Individuality; Nasals; Speaker identification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CEPSTRAL DISTANCE; INDIVIDUALITY; NASALS; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33745612974     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: 13475177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.27.233     Document Type: Article

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