Segmental durations predicted with a neural network

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 169-172

  Teixeira, João Paulo ^a   Freitas, Diamantino ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS;

CONTEXTUAL FEATURE; PERCEPTUAL TEST; PORTUGUESE LANGUAGES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009231337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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