Detection of nonnative speaker status from content-masked speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 626-637

  Munro, Murray J ^a   Derwing, Tracey M ^b   Burgess, Clifford S ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backwards speech; Foreign accent; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

FOREIGN ACCENTS; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; REDUCED SENSITIVITY; SECOND LANGUAGE; SPEAKING RATE; SPEECH PRODUCTION; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; VOICE QUALITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79952892045     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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