SLIM prosodic automatic tools for self-learning instruction

Speech Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-166

  Delmonte, Rodolfo ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; FUZZY SETS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEACHING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); COMPUTER-AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) SYSTEMS; CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; PROSODY;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034140967     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00043-6     Document Type: Article

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