Identification of speaker sex from one vowel across a range of fundamental frequencies

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3095-3104

  Honorof, Douglas N ^a   Whalen, D H ^a  

^a HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE-IN; DIFFERENCE LIMEN; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; TEST ACCURACY; VOCAL-TRACTS; VOICE QUALITY;

AUDITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649557736     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3488347     Document Type: Article

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