When and why listeners disagree in voice quality assessment tasks

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2354-2364

  Kreiman, Jody ^a   Gerratt, Bruce R ^a   Ito, Mika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

INTERRATER VARIABILITY; LISTENERS; VOICE PATTERNS; VOICE QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ROC CURVE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 34848903222     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2770547     Document Type: Article

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