Intonation and Dialog Context as Constraints for Speech Recognition

Language and Speech

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 493-512

  Taylor, Paul ^a   King, Simon ^b   Isard, Stephen ^b   Wright, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dialog; Intonation; Language modeling; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0347128737     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002383099804100411     Document Type: Article

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