Age, sex, and vowel dependencies of acoustic measures related to the voice source

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2283-2295

  Iseli, Markus ^a   Shue, Yen Liang ^a   Alwan, Abeer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACOUSTIC MEASURES; FEMALE TALKERS; TRACT-SOURCE INTERACTIONS; VOWEL DEPENDENCIES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECTRUM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNX; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOICE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 34047246313     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2697522     Document Type: Article

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