Numerical simulation of transfer and attenuation characteristics of soft-tissue conducted sound originating from vocal tract

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 469-472

  Otani, Makoto ^a   Hirahara, Tatsuya ^a   Shimizu, Shota ^a   Adachi, Seiji ^b  

^a TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BUILDING PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain method; Non audible murmur; Soft tissue; Spectral decay

Indexed keywords

CLARIFICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROPHONES; RESONANCE; SILICONES; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SURFACE ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS; CONDENSER MICROPHONES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; GOOD IMPEDANCE MATCHING; HEAD MODELS; HUMAN INTERFACES; IMPRESSION MATERIALS; NON-AUDIBLE MURMUR; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PROPAGATION LOSSES; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUES; SOUND PROPAGATIONS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL DECAY; SPECTRAL DECAYS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH SOUNDS; TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSMISSION LOSSES; VOCAL CORDS; VOCAL TRACTS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 56949089712     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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