Detecting prominence in conversational speech: Pitch accent, givenness and focus

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 453-456

  Rangarajan Sridhar, Vivek Kumar ^a   Nenkova, Ani ^b   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a   Jurafsky, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC DETECTOR; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; PITCH ACCENTS; TEXTUAL FEATURES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84902656722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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