Prosodic peak estimation under segmental perturbations

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 862-873

  Kochanski, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PEAK ESTIMATION; PEAK POSITION; SEGMENTAL PERTURBATION; SEGMENTAL STRUCTURE; SPEECH DATA;

POSITION MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; HEARING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 76349090433     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3268511     Document Type: Article

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