A method to identify noise-robust perceptual features: Application for consonant /t/

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2801-2814

  Régnier, Marion S ^a   Allen, Jont B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC FEATURE (AF); ARTICULATION INDEX DENSITY; SPECTROTEMPORAL DOMAIN; SPEECH-TO-NOISE RATIO;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ENTROPY; HEARING; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PILOT PROJECTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 43549101355     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2897915     Document Type: Article

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