Foreign accent identification based on prosodic parameters

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 759-762

  Piat, Marina ^a   Fohr, Dominique ^a   Illina, Irina ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Foreign accent identification; Non native speech; Prosodic parameters

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ENGLISH SENTENCES; EUROPEAN PROJECT; FOREIGN ACCENT IDENTIFICATION; IDENTIFICATION RATES; NON-NATIVE; PROSODIC PARAMETER; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TWO PARAMETER;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867218429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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