Long-range prosody prediction and rhythm

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kochanski, Greg ^a   Loukina, Anastassia ^a   Keane, Elinor ^a   Shih, Chilin ^b   Rosner, Burton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Poetry; Prediction; Prosody; Rhythm; Syllable

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

PREDICTIVE POWER; PROSODY PREDICTIONS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SPEECH RHYTHM; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79959591281     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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