An unsupervised quantitative measure for word prominence in spontaneous speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Wang, Dagen ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a Speech Analysis and Interpretation Lab USC Viterbi School of Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL DETECTION;

PART OF SPEECH (POS);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33646785006     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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