Accent-independent adaptation to foreign accented speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Baese Berk, Melissa M ^a   Bradlow, Ann R ^b   Wright, Beverly A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCENTED SPEECH; EXPOSED TO; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; TRAINING SETS;

ACOUSTICS;

PHYSICS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; COMPREHENSION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874919678     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4789864     Document Type: Article

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