Speech is “heterometric”: The changing rhythms of speech

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Brown, Steven ^a   Weishaar, Kyle ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterometer; Meter; Music; Polyrhythm; Prominence; Rhythm; Speech; Stress

Indexed keywords

MUSIC;

COMPLEX RATIO; HETEROMETER; POLYRHYTHM; PROMINENCE; RHYTHM; SIMPLE++; SPEECH RHYTHM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85027517220     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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