Temporal variability in speech segments of Spanish: Context and speaker related differences

Speech Communication

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 431-447

  Mendoza, E ^a   Carballo, G ^a   Cruz, A ^a   Fresneda, M D ^a   Munoz J ^a   Marrero, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD PROCESSING;

SPEECH SEGMENTS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0038188727     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00086-9     Document Type: Article

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