Identifying isolated, multispeaker Mandarin tones from brief acoustic input: A perceptual and acoustic study

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1125-1137

  Lee, Chao Yang ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; CHI-SQUARE ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENDER DETECTIONS; HEIGHT ESTIMATIONS; IDENTIFICATION ACCURACIES; LEXICAL TONES; SPEAKER NORMALIZATIONS; SPECTRAL TILTS; VOICE QUALITIES;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59849108630     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3050322     Document Type: Article

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