Acoustic parameters for automatic detection of nasal manner

Speech Communication

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-239

  Pruthi, Tarun ^a   Espy Wilson, Carol Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic correlates; Acoustic parameters; Automatic detection; Automatic speech recognition; Nasal; Nasal manner

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCIES; MARKOV PROCESSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VECTORS;

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; NASAL; NASAL MANNER;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 4344687450     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2004.06.001     Document Type: Article

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