The role of F0 variation in the intelligibility of Mandarin sentences

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Patel, Aniruddh D ^a   Xu, Yi ^b   Wang, Bei ^c  

^a Department of Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Minzu University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

BABBLE NOISE; F0 CONTOURS; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIONS; NATURAL SPEECH; SENTENCE INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RESYNTHESIS; TONE LANGUAGES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 85088238284     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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