Effects of speaking rate and word frequency on pronunciations in conversational speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-158

  Fosler Lussier, Eric ^a,b   Morgan, Nelson ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR) SYSTEMS; PRONUNCIATION MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033321442     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00035-7     Document Type: Article

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