Analysis of high-frequency energy in long-term average spectra of singing, speech, and voiceless fricatives

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1754-1764

  Monson, Brian B ^a   Lotto, Andrew J ^b   Story, Brad H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HEARING TECHNOLOGY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FIDELITY; NORMAL CONDITION; PRODUCTION LEVEL; PRODUCTION MODES; SPEECH SPECTRA; VOCAL TRACT MODELS;

SPEECH;

EID: 84866274251     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4742724     Document Type: Article

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