A text-free approach to assessing nonnative intonation

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 897-900

  Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Kazemzadeh, Abe ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intonation; Nonnative speech; Pronunciation evaluation; Prosody; Text independent

Indexed keywords

BIGRAMS; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; INTONATION; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE; PRONUNCIATION EVALUATIONS; PROSODY; SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURES; TEXT INDEPENDENTS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149127112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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