The strength of foreign accent in Czech English under adverse listening conditions

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 1010-1021

  Volín, Jan ^a   Skarnitzl, Radek ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Czech English; Foreign accent; Low pass filtering; Perception; Rhythm metrics; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

CZECH ENGLISH; FOREIGN ACCENT; LOW-PASS FILTERING; PERCEPTION; RHYTHM METRICS;

DEGRADATION; LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649323835     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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