Automatic detection of the second subglottal resonance and its application to speaker normalization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3268-3277

  Wang, Shizhen ^a   Lulich, Steven M ^b   Alwan, Abeer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; LANGUAGE STUDY; LIMITED DATA; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; SPEAKER VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL MISMATCH; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPEECH CONTENT; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH SOUNDS; TESTING CONDITIONS; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; VOCAL-TRACTS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RESONANCE; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LINGUISTICS;

ACCELEROMETER; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LARYNX; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 72549104937     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3257185     Document Type: Article

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