French prominence: A probabilistic framewok

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3993-3996

  Obin, Nicolas ^a   Rodet, Xavier ^a   Lacheret Dujour, Anne ^b,c  

^a IRCAM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic correlates; Classification; Feature selection; Gaussian mixture model; Prominence; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; CLASSIFICATION; FEATURE SELECTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; PROMINENCE; PROSODY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 51449105733     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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