Text-based and signal-based prediction of break indices and pause durations

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pfitzinger, Hartmut R ^a   Reichel, Uwe D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

BREAK INDICES; DURATION PREDICTIONS; FEATURE VARIATIONS; INDEX PREDICTIONS; PREDICTION METHODS; PROSODIC BOUNDARY; RANDOM SIGNAL; SIGNAL FEATURES; SYMBOLIC FEATURES;

EID: 85089829685     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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