Automatic assessment of vowel space area

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sandoval, Steven ^a   Berisha, Visar ^b   Utianski, Rene L ^b   Liss, Julie M ^b   Spanias, Andreas ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; CONNECTED SPEECH; PRODUCTION DEFICITS; SPEECH PRODUCTION; STRONG CORRELATION; WORKING SPACE;

AUTOMATION; ESTIMATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

LINGUISTICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME; VOICE;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84887463708     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4826150     Document Type: Article

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