Analysis of acoustic correlates of British, Australian and American accents

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 345-350

  Yan, Qin ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^a   Rentzos, Dimitrios ^a   Ho, Ching Hsiang ^b   Turajlic, Emir ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; AMERICAN ENGLISH; FALL RATES; PITCH ACCENTS; PITCH FREQUENCIES; SPEAKING RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 64349115610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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