Spontaneous speech: How people really talk and why engineers should care

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1781-1784

  Shriberg, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HUMAN-HUMAN COMMUNICATION; SPONTANEOUS CONVERSATION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33745224103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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