Sound change and speaker identity: An acoustic study

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

Volumn 4441 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 130-141

  De Jong, Gea ^a   McDougall, Kirsty ^a   Nolan, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formant frequencies; Sound change; Speaker identification; Standard southern british english; Vowels

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

FORMANT FREQUENCIES; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; STANDARD SOUTHERN BRITISH ENGLISH; VOWELS;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 38149067487     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74122-0_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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