Automatic detection and prediction of topic changes through automatic detection of register variations and pause duration

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2919-2922

  De Looze, Céline ^a   Rauzy, Stéphane ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic detection and prediction; Pause duration; Register variations; Topic changes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; TOPIC STRUCTURES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450213755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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