Prosodic manifestations of confidence and uncertainty in spoken language

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 74-77

  Pon Barry, Heather ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion detection; Human speech perception; Paralinguistic cues; Prosody

Indexed keywords

EMOTION DETECTION; HUMAN SPEECH PERCEPTION; LOCAL REGION; PARALINGUISTIC CUES; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODY; SPEECH DATA; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867228367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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