A comparison of inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) and ToBI (Tones and Break Indices)

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 317-320

  Dilley, Laura ^a   Breen, Mara ^b   Bolivar, Marti ^b   Kraemer, John ^b   Gibson, Edward ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Prosodiclabeling; Prosody; Speech corpora

Indexed keywords

SPEECH CODING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANNOTATION SYSTEMS; EXPERT FEEDBACK; KAPPA STATISTIC; MULTIPLE LEVELS; PROSODICLABELING; PROSODY; SPEECH CORPORA; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949236171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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