The prosody of pet robot directed speech: Evidence from children

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Batliner, Anton ^a   Biersack, S ^b   Steidl, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTS;

AVERAGE ENERGY; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; ENERGY; ENERGY VARIATIONS; HARMONICS-TO-NOISE RATIOS; HUMAN ROBOTS; PET ROBOTS; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODICS;

SPEECH;

EID: 48249093945     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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