Principal components of vocal-tract area functions and inversion of vowels by linear regression of cepstrum coefficients

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-39

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

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

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EID: 33751340329     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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