Acoustic analysis and detection of hypernasality using a group delay function

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 621-629

  Vijayalakshmi, P ^a   Reddy, M Ramasubba ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Douglas ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Formant analysis; Group delay function; Hypernasality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BANDWIDTH; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

GROUP DELAY FUNCTIONS; HYPERNASAL SPEECH; HYPERNASALITY; PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS; PHONEMES;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTION; PHONEME; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; NASAL CAVITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33947526201     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.889191     Document Type: Article

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