Male and female speech: A study of mean f0, f0 range, phonation type and speech rate in parisian French and American English speakers

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 305-309

  Pépiot, Erwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

American english; Cross gender acoustic differences; Cross language variations; Fundamental frequency; Parisian french; Phonation type; Speech and gender; Speech rate

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

AMERICAN ENGLISH; CROSS LANGUAGES; CROSS-GENDER ACOUSTIC DIFFERENCES; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; PARISIAN FRENCH; PHONATION TYPE; SPEECH RATES;

SPEECH;

EID: 84904623734     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2014-48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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