The vowel game: Continuous real-time visualization for pronunciation learning with vowel charts

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4139 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 696-703

  Paganus, Annu ^a   Mikkonen, Vesa Petteri ^a   Mäntylä, Tomi ^a   Nuuttila, Sami ^a   Isoaho, Jouni ^a   Aaltonen, Olli ^a   Salakoski, Tapio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VISUALIZATION;

REAL-TIME FEEDBACK; VOCAL TRACT; VOWEL CHARTS; VOWEL GAME;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33749663952     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11816508_69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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