Phrase-final rises as a prosodic feature in wh-questions in Swedish human-machine dialogue

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 268-283

  House, David ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Human machine dialogue; Intonation; Prosodic features; Question intonation; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SPEECH CODING;

HUMAN-MACHINE DIALOGUE; INTONATION; PROSODIC FEATURES; QUESTION INTONATION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 21844434224     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.03.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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