PROSODY AS A DISTINCTIVE FEATURE FOR THE DISCRIMINATION OF ARABIC DIALECTS

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 395-398

  Barkat, Melissa ^a   Ohala, John ^b   Pellegrino, François ^a  

^a Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic dialects; Language Identification; Perceptual experiment; Prosody

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC CUES; ARABIC DIALECTS; DISCRIMINATION TASKS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; PERCEPTUAL EXPERIMENT; PROSODICS; PROSODY; VOICE SIGNALS;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 85091017569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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