Modeling and automatic detection of English sentence stress for Computer-Assisted English prosody Learning system

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 749-752

  Imoto, Kazunori ^a   Tsubota, Yasushi ^a   Raux, Antoine ^a   Kawahara, Tatsuya ^a   Dantsuji, Masatake ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; LINGUISTICS;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED; COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; ENGLISH SENTENCES; STRESS RECOGNITION; SYLLABLE STRUCTURES; TWO-STAGE RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 85009285486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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