How similar are pitch contours derived from 'imaginary' student interactions to those derived from real interactions?

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 481-484

  Knoll, Monja ^a   Scharrer, Lisa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

ALGORITHMIC METHODS; FEMALE STUDENTS; NATURAL SPEECH; PITCH CONTOURS; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; REAL INTERACTIONS; SPEECH RESEARCH; STUDENT INTERACTIONS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79955834452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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