Making conversational vowels more clear

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 642-645

  Mohammadi, Seyed Hamidreza ^a   Kain, Alexander ^a   Van Santen, Jan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clear speech; Conversational speech; Intelligibility; Speech transformation

Indexed keywords

CLEAR SPEECH; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; FORMANT FREQUENCY; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LINE SPECTRAL FREQUENCIES; SHORT-TERM SPECTRUM; SIGNIFICANCE TEST; SPEECH TRANSFORMATION;

LINGUISTICS; TESTING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84878384703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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