Static features in real-time recognition of isolated vowels at high pitch

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2389-2404

  Ferreira, Aníbal J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; INTEGER MULTIPLES; PITCH STRUCTURE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PITCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TRAINING; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 34848892089     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2772228     Document Type: Article

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