The detection of emphatic words using acoustic and lexical features

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3297-3300

  Brenier, Jason M ^a   Cer, Daniel M ^a   Jurafsky, Daniel ^b  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION USE; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; LANGUAGE SUMMARIZATION; PITCH ACCENTS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33745183765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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