Perceptual rate normalization in naturally produced rate-varied speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2882-2898

  Nagao, Kyoko ^a   De Jong, Kenneth ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ABSTRACTIONIST MODELS; ARTIFICIALLY VARIED STIMULI; VOICING CATEGORIES; VOT CONTINUUM SHIFT;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RATE; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE;

EID: 34247890098     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2713680     Document Type: Article

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