A standard set of American-English voiced stop-consonant stimuli from morphed natural speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 877-888

  Stephens, Joseph D W ^a,b   Holt, Lori L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consonants; Linear predictive coding; Speech stimuli

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; ACOUSTIC SPEECH; BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENT; CONSONANTS; LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING; MORPHING; NATURAL SPEECH; REFERENCE DATA; SPEECH STIMULI;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79955528920     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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