Vowel formant discrimination for high-fidelity speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1224-1233

  Liu, Chang ^a,b   Kewley Port, Diane ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

VOWEL FORMANT DISCRIMINATION; VOWELS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 4043109801     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1768958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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