Vowel acoustics for speaking and singing

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 629-640

  Story, Brad H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

FORMANT CLUSTERING; SINGING; SPEAKING; VOWEL ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 4243193736     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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