Temporal organization of English clear and conversational speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3171-3182

  Smiljanić, Rajka ^a,b   Bradlow, Ann R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSES; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECHES; LISTENING TESTS; PROSODIC STRUCTURES; SPEAKING RATES; SPEAKING STYLES; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL PROPERTIES;

SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOWEL;

ARTICULATION DISORDERS; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; ENGLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; UNITED STATES; VOICE;

EID: 56749106380     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2990712     Document Type: Article

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