A prelingual tool for the education of altered voices

Speech Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 583-600

  Rodríguez, William R ^a   Saz, Oscar ^a   Lleida, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Altered voice; Formant normalization; Speech processing; Vocal tract length estimation; Voice therapy

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ALTERED VOICES; ANALYSIS AND MODELING; FORMANT NORMALIZATION; LINEAR PREDICTION CODING; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH ESTIMATIONS; VOCAL TRACT LENGTHS; VOICE THERAPY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84858440781     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.05.006     Document Type: Review

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