Estimating speaking rate by means of rhythmicity parameters

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1873-1876

  Heinrich, Christian ^a   Schiel, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol Language Corpus; BAS; Speech rate; Speech rhythm

Indexed keywords

BAS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; SHORT-TIME ENERGY; SPEAKING RATE; SPEECH MATERIALS; SPEECH RATES; SPEECH RHYTHM; SPEECH STYLE;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84865802739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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