PREDICTION OF WORD PROMINENCE

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 999-1002

  Widera, Christina ^a   Portele, Thomas ^a   Wolters, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE LEARNING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CLOSED-CLASS WORDS; HANDCRAFTED RULES; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PERCEPTUAL TEST; PROSODIC DATABASE; SPEECH SIGNALS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 12444282224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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