Modeling local context for pitch accent prediction

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2000-October, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Pan, Shimei ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ITS APPLICATIONS; LOCAL CONTEXTS; MEDICAL DOMAINS; PITCH ACCENTS; RESEARCH APPLICATIONS; SPEECH CORPORA;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85149144658     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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