Integration across frequency bands for consonant identification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1749-1762

  Ronan, Diane ^a,b   Dix, Ann K ^a,c   Shah, Phalguni ^a,d   Braida, Louis D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d 36 747 MIT ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

FREQUENCY BANDS; FREQUENCY SEPARATION; FUZZY LOGICAL MODELS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSONANT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 4444232789     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1777858     Document Type: Article

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