Regression tree approach to studying factors influencing acoustic voice analysis

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 274-288

  Deliyski, Dimitar D ^a   Shaw, Heather S ^a   Evans, Maegan K ^a   Vesselinov, Roumen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic voice analysis; Data acquisition; Environmental noise; Fundamental frequency; Perturbation; Voice assessment

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; MICROPHONE; NOISE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHONATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33745858361     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093184     Document Type: Article

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