Foreign accent

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

Volumn 4343 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 75-87

  Gut, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic properties; Foreign accent; Perceptual judgments and acoustic correlates

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES;

CONSONANT CLUSTER REDUCTION; FEATURES VOWEL REDUCTION; FOREIGN ACCENT; SPEECH RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 36248978278     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74200-5_4     Document Type: Article

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