A comparison of vocal tract perturbation patterns based on statistical and acoustic considerations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Story, Brad H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PERTURBATION PATTERNS; VOCAL TRACT DEFORMATION PATTERNS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOCAL CORD; VOWEL;

GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LIP; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OROPHARYNX; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PULMONARY VENTILATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 34848916034     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2771369     Document Type: Article

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