Reliable methods for estimating relative vocal tract lengths from formant trajectories of common words

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1193-1204

  Watanabe, Akira ^a   Sakata, Tadashi ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic tube; Dynamic time warping; Formant frequency; Vocal tract length

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WORD PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC TUBES; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; FORMANT FREQUENCY; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 34047257348     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.860829     Document Type: Article

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