Bayesian networks for phone duration prediction

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-311

  Goubanova, Olga ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Classification and regression trees; Duration modelling; Sums of products; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DURATION MODELLING; PHONE DURATION PREDICTIONS; SUMS OF PRODUCTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 40249100308     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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