How stable are acoustic metrics of contrastive speech rhythm?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1559-1569

  Wiget, Lukas ^a   White, Laurence ^a   Schuppler, Barbara ^a   Grenon, Izabelle ^a   Rauch, Olesya ^a   Mattys, Sven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOURCES OF VARIATION; SPEECH RHYTHM; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77950447148     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3293004     Document Type: Article

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