A phonetic analysis of natural laughter, for use in automatic laughter processing systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6974 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 397-406

  Urbain, Jérôme ^a   Dutoit, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATED DATABASE; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT COMPUTING; TELEPHONE SETS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80054834317     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24600-5_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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