Human phoneme recognition depending on speech-intrinsic variability

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3126-3141

  Meyer, Bernd T ^a   Jürgens, Tim ^a   Wesker, Thorsten ^a   Brand, Thomas ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATORY FEATURES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; HUMAN SPEECH PERCEPTION; INTRINSIC VARIABILITIES; LONG-TERM SPECTRUM; MASKING NOISE; PHONEME RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION RATES; SPEAKING RATE; SPECTRAL LEVELS; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH SEGMENTS;

EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONATION; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649601853     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3493450     Document Type: Article

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