Speech rhythm guided syllable nuclei detection

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3797-3800

  Zhang, Yaodong ^a   Glass, James R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Speech rhythm; Syllable nuclei detection

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DATA SETS; LOCATION DETECTION; SPEECH RATES; SPEECH RHYTHM; SYLLABLE NUCLEI DETECTION;

ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 70349220988     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960454     Document Type: Conference Paper

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