Acoustic-phonetic correlates of talker intelligibility for adults and children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3108-3118

  Hazan, Valerie ^a   Markham, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

STIMULI; WORD DURATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSONANT; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STIMULUS; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 9644287935     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1806826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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