Amplitude convergence in children's conversational speech with animated personas

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2689-2692

  Coulston, Rachel ^a   Oviatt, Sharon ^a   Darves, Courtney ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE BIOLOGY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ANIMATED CHARACTERS; BI-DIRECTIONAL; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACE; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; PROSODIC FEATURES; TEXT TO SPEECH; USER GROUPS;

SPEECH;

EID: 85009285073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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