Is irregular phonation a reliable cue towards the segmentation of continuous speech in American English?

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Surana, Kushan ^a,b   Slifka, Janet ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Research Laboratory of Electronics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACCESS MODELS; AMERICAN ENGLISH; COMPOUND WORDS; CONNECTED SPEECH; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; DATA SET; SYLLABLE BOUNDARIES; TIMIT DATABASE;

SPEECH;

EID: 84902667113     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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