Automatic detection of prosodic prominence in continuous speech

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 301-306

  Tamburini, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; PHONETIC FEATURES; STRONG CORRELATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009165352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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