Modeling durations of syllables using neural networks

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 282-295

  Rao, K Sreenivasa ^a   Yegnanarayana, B ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; TEXT PROCESSING;

AVERAGE PREDICTION ERROR; CONTEXTUAL FEATURES; SYLLABLES; TWO STAGE DURATION MODEL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750713338     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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