Vocal cues of disordered voices: An overview

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 667-680

  Schoentgen, Jean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CORRELATION METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISORDERED VOICES; SPEAKER'S PHONATION; SPEECH MATERIAL; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH;

EID: 33750363381     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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