Unsupervised labeling of sentence level accent

Details Unsupervised labeling of sentence level accent Unsupervised labeling of sentence level accent

2007-02-20

2010-11-30

Smits, Talivaldis I (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Recognition

C704S245000, C704S009000, C704S010000, C704SE15025, C704SE15020

Reexamination Certificate

active

07844457

ABSTRACT:
Methods are disclosed for automatic accent labeling without manually labeled data. The methods are designed to exploit accent distribution between function and content words.

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