Automatic classification of unequal lexical stress patterns using machine learning algorithms

2012 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 388-391

  Shahin, Mostafa Ali ^a   Ahmed, Beena ^a   Ballard, Kirrie J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

automatic assessment; lexical stress; prosody

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; ANN CLASSIFIERS; AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CHILDREN SPEECH; GAUSSIAN KERNELS; HIDDEN LAYERS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELING; MEASUREMENTS OF; PROSODIC EVENTS; PROSODY; SETS OF FEATURES; SPEECH THERAPY; STRESS PATTERNS; TECHNOLOGY-BASED;

FILTER BANKS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84874242315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2012.6424255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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