Tree-based prediction of prosodic phrase breaks on top of shallow textual features

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3237-3240

  Xydas, Gerasimos ^a   Zervas, Panagiotis ^b   Kouroupetroglou, Georgios ^a   Fakotakis, Nikolaos ^b   Kokkinakis, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ACCURACY; AUTOMATIC PROSODIC PHRASE BREAK; BREAK PLACEMENT; TEXTUAL FEATURES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33745205062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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