THE SYMBOLIC CODING OF SEGMENTAL DURATION AND TONAL ALIGNMENT: AN EXTENSION TO THE INTSINT SYSTEM

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1639-1642

  Hirst, Daniel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL ENCODING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC DATA; ANALYSIS-BY-SYNTHESIS APPROACH; CODING SYSTEM; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; INTSINT; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS; PROSODICS; STYLISATION; SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85135262405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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