The variation of prosody with text type

IEE Colloquium (Digest)

Volumn , Issue 58, 2000, Pages 33-41

  Fackrell, Justin ^a   Vereecken, Halewijn ^b   Martens, Jean Pierre ^b   Van Coile, Bert ^a,b  

^a Lernout and Hauspie Speech Prod NV ^*  (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; PROSODIC BOUNDARY STRENGTH (PBS); UNNATURAL PROSODY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 6344281169     PISSN: 09633308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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