Acoustic analysis of adult speaker age

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4343 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 88-107

  Schötz, Susanne ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Acoustic correlates; Phonetics; Speaker age

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL (SPL); SPEAKER AGE;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 36248944637     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74200-5_5     Document Type: Article

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