Spectral weighting strategies for sentences measured by a correlational method

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3827-3836

  Calandruccio, Lauren ^a   Doherty, Karen A ^a  

^a Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

BROADBAND SPECTRUM; SPEECH SIGNALS; SYLLABLES;

TEXT PROCESSING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; PHONATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH; VOICE;

EID: 34249892430     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2722211     Document Type: Article

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