Acoustic characteristics of lexical stress in continuous telephone speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-111

  Van Kuijk, David ^a,b,c   Boves, Loe ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Automatic vowel classification; Dutch; Lexical stress; Prosody

Indexed keywords

DECODING; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR) SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC VOWEL CLASSIFICATION; LEXICAL STRESSES;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033096914     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(98)00069-7     Document Type: Article

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