Rhythm measures and dimensions of durational variation in speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3258-3270

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; WAVE FORMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRANCE; GREECE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPEECH; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CHINA; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FRANCE; GREECE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; RUSSIA; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959612191     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3559709     Document Type: Article

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