Automatic ToBI prediction and alignment to speed manual labeling of prosody

Speech Communication

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 135-151

  Syrdal, Ann K ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a   McGory, Julie ^b   Beckman, Mary ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING;

SPEECH CORPUS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0035156005     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00073-X     Document Type: Article

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