How can you use disfluencies and still sound as a good speaker?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1687-

  Moniz, Helena ^a,b   Mata, Ana Isabel ^b   Trancoso, Isabel ^a,c   Viana, M Céu ^b  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Disfluencies; Fluency ratings; Prosody

Indexed keywords

DISFLUENCIES; FLUENCY RATINGS; PROSODY;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867192178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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