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SPIRE
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Prosodic Stress and Topic Detection in Spoken Sentences
The relationship between acoustic stress and information content of words is investigated. On one side, the average acoustic stress is measured for each word throughout each utter...
Rosaria Silipo, Fabio Crestani
CORR
2000
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation of Speech into Sentences and Topics
A crucial step in processing speech audio data for information extraction, topic detection, or browsing/playback is to segment the input into sentence and topic units. Speech segm...
Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Z. Hakk...
ACSW
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Detecting Stress in Spoken English using Decision Trees and Support Vector Machines
This paper describes an approach to the detection of stress in spoken New Zealand English. After identifying the vowel segments of the speech signal, the approach extracts two dif...
Huayang Xie, Peter Andreae, Mengjie Zhang, Paul Wa...
TASLP
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Automatic Prosodic Event Detection Using Acoustic, Lexical, and Syntactic Evidence
With the advent of prosody annotation standards such as tones and break indices (ToBI), speech technologists and linguists alike have been interested in automatically detecting pro...
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Shrikanth S. Nar...
LREC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
CASIA-CASSIL: a Chinese Telephone Conversation Corpus in Real Scenarios with Multi-leveled Annotation
CASIA-CASSIL is a large-scale corpus base of Chinese human-human naturally-occurring telephone conversations in restricted domains. The first edition consists of 792 90-second con...
Keyan Zhou, Aijun Li, Zhigang Yin, Chengqing Zong