The significance of empty speech pauses: Cognitive and algorithmic issues

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4729 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 542-554

  Esposito, Anna ^a   Stejskal, Vojtěch ^b   Smékal, Zdeněk ^b   Bourbakis, Nikolaos ^c  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CYBERNETICS; MODAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMIC ISSUES; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CROSS-MODAL; GENERAL PATTERN; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 49949103075     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75555-5_52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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