Talker discrimination across languages

Speech Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 781-790

  Wester, Mirjam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross language; Human speech perception; Talker discrimination

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LANGUAGE; FINNISH; HUMAN SPEECH PERCEPTION; LANGUAGE PAIRS; NATURAL SPEECH; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; TALKER DISCRIMINATION; VOICE CONVERSION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859769143     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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