Analyzing children's speech: An acoustic study of consonants and consonant-vowel transition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gerosa, M ^a,b   Lee, S ^c   Giuliani, D ^b   Narayanan, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; TEMPORAL LOGIC;

CONSONANT VOWEL TRANSITION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947697801     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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