Study on factors influencing durations of syllables in Mandarin

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 927-930

  Chu, Min ^a   Feng, Yongqiang ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VECTOR SPACES;

RESIDUALS ANALYSIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33847260890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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