Praat script to detect syllable nuclei and measure speech rate automatically

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 385-390

  de Jong, Nivja H ^a,b   Wempe, Ton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

AUTOMATION; HUMANS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE;

EID: 66149126976     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.2.385     Document Type: Article

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