Automatic syllable stress detection using prosodic features for pronunciation evaluation of language learners

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

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STUDENTS;

LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEM; LEXICAL STRESS PATTERNS; PRONUNCIATION ERRORS; RMS ENERGY RANGE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33646801249     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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