Modelling bird songs: Voice onset, overtones and registers

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 741-748

  Zaccarelli, Riccardo ^a   Elemans, Coen P H ^b   Fitch, W Tecumseh ^c   Herzel, Hanspeter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AVIAN SYRINX; REGISTER-LIKE TRANSITIONS; SELF-SUSTAINED VIBRATIONS; TRAPEZOIDAL MODEL;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33750349194     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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