Context in multi-lingual tone and pitch accent recognition

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1809-1812

  Levow, Gina Anne ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS;

ACCENT; CONTEXTUAL COARTICULATORY; PHRASAL INFLUENCES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745204186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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