Rhythm in read British English: Interdialect variability

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1573-1576

  Ferragne, Emmanuel ^a   Pellegrino, François ^a  

^a Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; BRITISH ENGLISH; DIALECT IDENTIFICATION; NOCV2; SPEECH RHYTHM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85009083819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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