A SOFTWARE TOOL TO STUDY PORTUGUESE VOWELS

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2543-2546

  Teixeira, Antonio ^a   Vaz, Francisco ^a   Principe, Jose Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

'CURRENT; ACOUSTIC TUBE; ACOUSTIC-TO-ARTICULATORY MAPPING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN SIMULATION; FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; NASAL TRACT; OPTIMISATIONS; SOFTWARE-SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE-TOOLS; VOWEL PRODUCTION;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84966448193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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