Analysis of the effects of word emphasis and echo question on F0 contours of cantonese utterances

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1825-1828

  Gu, Wentao ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a   Fujisaki, Hiroya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN MATCHING; SPEECH PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

CANTONESE UTTERANCES; TONE LANGUAGE;

ECHO SUPPRESSION;

EID: 33745193042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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