Voice low tone to high tone ratio: A potential quantitative index for vowel [a:] and its nasalization

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1437-1439

  Lee, Guo She ^a,b   Wang, Ching Ping ^c   Yang, Cheryl C H ^d   Kuo, Terry B J ^d  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hypernasal speech; Hypernasality; VLHR; Voice spectrum

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING; THERMISTORS;

HYPERNASAL SPEECH; HYPERNASALITY; VOICE LOW TONE TO HIGH TONE RATIO (VLHR); VOICE SPECTRUM;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; NOSE AIRFLOW; PERCEPTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE; THERMISTOR; VOICE; VOWEL; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AUSCULTATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLEFT PALATE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; LARYNX DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AUSCULTATION; CLEFT PALATE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 33746796804     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.873694     Document Type: Article

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