On the importance of pure prosody in the perception of speaker identity

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2824-2827

  Helander, Elina E ^a   Nurminen, Jani ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Prosody; Speaker identity

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

CURRENT TECHNIQUES; PROSODIC INFORMATIONS; PROSODY; SPEAKER IDENTITIES; SPEAKER IDENTITY; SPECTRAL DATUMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149114123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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