The effect of formant trajectories and phoneme durations on vowel intelligibility

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4677-4680

  Amano Kusumoto, Akiko ^a   Hosom, John Paul ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Speech analysis; Speech enhancement; Speech intelligibility; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; F0 CONTOURS; FORMANT FREQUENCY; FORMANT TRAJECTORY; FRONT VOWELS; SPEAKING RATE; SPEAKING STYLES; SPECTRAL TILT;

ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 70349212541     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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