Visual correlates of prosodic contrastive focus in french: Description and inter-speaker variability

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dohen, Marion ^a   Loevenbruck, Hélne ^a   Hill, Harold ^b  

^a Institut de la Communication Parlee   (France)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OBJECT TRACKING;

CONTRASTIVE FOCUS; FACIAL MOVEMENTS; FOLLOW UP; LIP TRACKING; OPTICAL TRACKERS; SPEAKER DEPENDENTS; SPEAKER VARIABILITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85089844730     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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