Analysis of emotional speech prosody in terms of part of speech tags

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2560-2563

  Bulut, Murtaza ^a   Lee, Sungbok ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional speech; Part of speech (POS); Prosody

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; PLASMA GUNS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; EMOTIONAL SPEECH; EMOTIONAL SPEECHES; MAIN EFFECTS; PART OF SPEECH (POS); PART OF SPEECHES; POS TAGS; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROSODY; TAG TYPES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149099824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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