Analysis by synthesis of acoustic correlates of British, Australian and American accents

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Yan, Qin ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^a   Rentzos, Dimitrios ^a   Ho, Ching Hsiang ^a,b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); INTONATION; PITCH PATTERN ANALYSIS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS (TTS);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 4544353416     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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