Hierarchical structure and word strength prediction of Mandarin prosody

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 1 SPEC., 2003, Pages 33-43

  Kochanski, Greg ^a   Shih, Chilin ^a   Jing, Hongyan ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Intonation; Mandarin Chinese; Modeling; Prosody; Tone

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; PLANNING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MANDARIN PROSODY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037235384     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021095805490     Document Type: Article

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