Relation of structural and vibratory kinematics of the vocal folds to two acoustic measures of breathy voice based on computational modeling

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1267-1283

  Samlan, Robin A ^a   Story, Brad H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Breathy voice; Vocal folds; Voice simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHONATION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORD; VOICE;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 80054107292     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0195)     Document Type: Article

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