The effect of surrounding phrase lengths on pause duration.

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 777-780

  Zvonik, Elena ^a   Cummins, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; CURRENT MODELS; INTONATIONAL PHRASE; NOCV1;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 67650671038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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