Effects of phonetic contexts on the duration of phonetic segments in fluent read speech

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1253-1256

  Dusan, Sorin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; CO-ARTICULATION; COMPREHENSIVE METHOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTEXT EFFECTS; NOCV2; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL DOMAIN;

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EID: 85009084579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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