Laryngeal voice quality changes in expression of prominence in continuous speech

5th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications, MAVEBA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 135-138

  Airas, M ^a   Alku, P ^a   Vainio, M ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Prominence; Voice inverse filtering

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

BREATHY VOICES; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; INVERSE FILTERING; PROMINENCE; VOICE QUALITY;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 84897986665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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