Measuring speech rhythm

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 95-98

  Gibbon, Dafydd ^a   Gut, Ulrike ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; BINARY CLASSIFIERS; NIGERIANS; SPEECH RHYTHM; TIMED LANGUAGES; VARIABILITY INDEX;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 65349086885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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