A language-independent feature set for the automatic evaluation of prosody

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 600-603

  Maier, A ^a   Honig F ^a   Zeissler, V ^a   Batliner, A ^a   Korner E ^a   Yamanaka, N ^a   Ackermann, P ^a   Noth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Learning systems; Speech analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; AUTOMATIC METHOD; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; FEATURE SETS; FEATURE VECTORS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; NOVEL METHODS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SECOND LANGUAGE; UNVOICED SPEECH; VOICED SEGMENT;

FACE RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 70450186880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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