Towards an automatic foreign accent reduction tool

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cho, Kwansun ^a   Harris, John G ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACCENTED SPEECH; AMERICAN ENGLISH; AUTOMATIC TOOLS; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; FOREIGN ACCENTS; OVERLAP-ADD; PROSODIC FEATURES; REDUCTION TOOLS; SPEECH UTTERANCE; WAVEFORM SIMILARITY;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77953699659     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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