Linguistic Analysis of Spontaneous Children Speech

1st Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Farantouri, Vassiliki ^a   Potamianos, Alexandros ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ANIMATED CHARACTERS; BI-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; GENDER TRENDS; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES; SPEAKING RATE; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; VOCABULARY SIZE;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 74049148269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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