The role of speech rate in perceiving speech rhythm

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 375-378

  Dellwo, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS;

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; ACOUSTIC DATA; BEHAVIORAL DATA; CROSS LANGUAGES; HUMAN LISTENERS; SPEECH RATES; SPEECH RHYTHM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84878394783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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