The role of glottal pulse rate and vocal tract length in the perception of speaker identity

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 148-151

  Gaudrain, Etienne ^a   Li, Su ^a   Ban, Vin Shen ^a   Patterson, Roy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glottal pulse rate; Speaker identity; Vocal tract length

Indexed keywords

GLOTTAL PULSE RATES; NATURAL SPEECH; VOCAL TRACT LENGTHS;

RADAR ANTENNAS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450187240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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