How to stretch and shrink vowel systems: Results from a vowel normalization procedure

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3278-3288

  Geng, Christian ^a   Mooshammer, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOMAINS; ANATOMICAL PROPERTIES; ARTICULATORY DATUM; BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PROCRUSTES METHODS; SPEAKER NORMALIZATIONS; VOCAL TRACTS; VOWEL NORMALIZATIONS; VOWEL PRODUCTIONS; VOWEL SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTICS; BIOMECHANICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALATE; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TONGUE; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 65549151799     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3106130     Document Type: Article

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