Rhythm measures with language-independent segmentation

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1531-1534

  Loukina, Anastassia ^a   Kochanski, Greg ^a   Shih, Chilin ^b   Keane, Elinor ^a   Watson, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear discriminant typology acoustic phonetics speech segmentation experimental

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; LANGUAGE VARIATION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT TYPOLOGY ACOUSTIC PHONETICS SPEECH SEGMENTATION EXPERIMENTAL; LINEAR DISCRIMINANTS; SPEECH RHYTHM; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; TWO-DIMENSION;

ACOUSTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70450175130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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