Automatic prominence identification and prosodic typology

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1813-1816

  Tamburini, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACCENT; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY (F0); PROSODIC TYPOLOGY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745184678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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