Acoustic analysis of imitated voice produced by a professional impersonator

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 813-816

  Kitamura, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glottal source characteristics; Imitated voice; Impersonator; Pitch frequency; Vocal tract acoustic characteristics

Indexed keywords

GLOTTAL SOURCE; IMITATED VOICE; IMPERSONATOR; PITCH FREQUENCIES; VOCAL-TRACTS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867211827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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