On the correlation between energy and pitch accent in read English speech

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 301-304

  Rosenberg, Andrew ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Prosodic analysis; Spectral emphasis

Indexed keywords

LOUDSPEAKERS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AMERICAN ENGLISH; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; DISCRIMINATIVE POWER; ENERGY COMPONENTS; FREQUENCY REGIONS; FREQUENCY SUB BAND; PROSODIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL EMPHASIS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949158717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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