Acoustic roles of the laryngeal cavity in vocal tract resonance

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2228-2238

  Takemoto, Hironori ^a   Adachi, Seiji ^a   Kitamura, Tatsuya ^a   Mokhtari, Parham ^a   Honda, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EFFECTS; LARYNGEAL CAVITY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; WAVELENGTHS;

BIOMECHANICS; RESONANCE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FORMANT; HUMAN; LARYNX; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VELOCITY; VOCAL CORD; VOCAL TRACT RESONANCE; VOWEL;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNX; LARYNX; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE;

EID: 33749538900     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2261270     Document Type: Article

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