Representing the prosodic context of words using Gaussian mixture

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 7-10

  Karkhedkar, Shreyas A ^a   Ward, Nigel G ^a  

^a University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous probability distributions; Language modeling; Lexico prosodic linkages; Perplexity; Prosodic features

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CONTINUOUS PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; LANGUAGE MODEL; PERPLEXITY; PROSODIC FEATURES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84902993587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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