Testing the effect of audiovisual cues to prominence via a reaction-time experiment

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 553-556

  Krahmer, Emiel ^a   Swerts, Marc ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audiovisual speech; Prominence; RT experiment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COGNITIVE PROCESSING; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; PROMINENCE; VISUAL CUES; VISUAL MARKERS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 44949139929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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