Automatic prosodic prominence detection in speech using acoustic features: An unsupervised system

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 129-132

  Tamburini, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

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

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009212501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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