The effect of stress and boundaries on segmental duration in a corpus of authentic speech (British English)

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 29-32

  Hirst, Daniel ^a   Bouzon, Caroline ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTHENTIC SPEECH; BRITISH ENGLISH (AIX-MARSEC); LABELLED DATABASE; SEGMENTAL DURATION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33745191231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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