Evaluating factors impacting the accuracy of forced alignments in a multimodal corpus

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 759-762

  Chen, Lei ^a   Liu, Yang ^a,b   Harper, Mary ^a   Maia, Eduardo ^a   McRoy, Susan ^c  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; SPEECH;

COMPUTER MODELS; HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATIONS; NUMBER OF FACTORS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEECH FEATURES; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85028075710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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