An automatic system for detecting prosodic prominence in American english continuous speech

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-44

  Tamburini, F ^a   Caini, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic feature extraction; Pitch accent; Prominence; Prosody; Stress accent

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AUTOMATIC FEATURE EXTRACTION; PITCH ACCENT; PROMINENCE; PROSODY; STRESS ACCENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 17444387117     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10772-005-4760-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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