Temporal compression of speech: An evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 790-796

  Tucker, Simon ^a   Whittaker, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Speech processing; Text processing; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; OVER-SPEED; POINTS OF INTERESTS; SEMANTIC FEATURES; SPEECH RATES; SPEECH RECORDINGS; SPEED-UP; TEMPORAL COMPRESSIONS;

ACOUSTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS; SPEED; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES; WORD PROCESSING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 57849129912     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.916527     Document Type: Article

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