Effects of frequency shifts on perceived naturalness and gender information in speech

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 889-892

  Assmann, Peter F ^a   Dembling, Sophia ^a   Nearey, Terrance M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frequency shifted speech; Perceived naturalness; Voice gender

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ADULT FEMALES; CO-VARIATIONS; FORMANT FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY SHIFT; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; GEOMETRIC MEAN; NATURAL SPEECH; PERCEIVED NATURALNESS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EID: 34547627419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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