Prosodic prominence detection in speech

Proceedings - 7th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, ISSPA 2003

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 385-388

  Tamburini, Fahio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; PHONETIC FEATURES; STRONG CORRELATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33645184591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPA.2003.1224721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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