Perception of stress and speaking style for selected elements of the SUSAS database

Speech Communication

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 493-501

  Bolia, Robert S ^a   Slyh, Raymond E ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Speech perception; Speech recognition; Stressed speech; SUSAS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0037513425     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00129-2     Document Type: Article

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