ACOUSTICAL FEATURES AS PREDICTORS FOR PROMINENCE IN READ ALOUD DUTCH SENTENCES USED IN ANN'S

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 551-554

  Streefkerk, Barbertje M ^a   Pols, Louis C W ^a   ten Bosch, Louis F M ^b  

^a IFOTT   (Netherlands)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ENERGY; INPUT FEATURES; NEURAL-NETWORKS; TEST SETS; TRAINING SETS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84888301186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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