Speaking Rate and Fundamental Frequency as Speech Cues to Perceived Age

Journal of Voice

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-69

  Harnsberger, James D ^a   Shrivastav, Rahul ^a   Brown Jr , W S ^a   Rothman, Howard ^a   Hollien, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis of voice; Age estimation; Vocal aging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SPEECH RATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOICE; VOLUNTEER;

AGE FACTORS; CUES; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 37349102645     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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