Data driven intonation modelling of 6 languages

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Buhmann, Jeska ^a   Vereecken, Halewijn ^a   Fackrell, Justin ^b   Martens, Jean Pierre ^a   Van Coile, Bert ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC LABELLING; DATA DRIVEN; INTONATION MODELS; PROSODIC FEATURES; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK (RNN); TRAINING CORPUS; TRAINING DATA;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 85009062747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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