Time dependence of vocal tract modes during production of vowels and vowel sequences

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3770-3789

  Story, Brad H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

UNIVERSITIES; VOCAL TRACT; VOWELS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; HARD PALATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOUTH CAVITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOCAL CORD; VOWEL; X RAY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LARYNX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONATION; SPEECH; VOICE;

EID: 34249898887     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2730621     Document Type: Article

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