PROSODIC FEATURES FOR AUTOMATED PRONUNCIATION IMPROVEMENT IN THE SPELL SYSTEM

2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1992

Volumn , Issue , 1992, Pages 413-416

  Rooney, Edmund ^a   Hiller, Steven M ^a   Laver, John ^a   Jack, Mervyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL;

ANCHOR POINT; ASSESSMENT AND IMPROVEMENT; AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV MODELING TECHNIQUES; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SIMILARITY METRICS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 0342573437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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