Title
Local speech rate as a combination of syllable and phone rate
Abstract
This investigation focuses on deriving local speech rate directlyout of the speech signal, which differs from syllable rate and fromphone rate. Since local speech rate modifies acoustic cues (e.g.transitions), phones, and even words, it is one of the most importantprosodic cues.Our local speech rate estimation method is based on a linear combinationof the syllable rate and of the phone rate, since this investigationstrongly suggests that neither the syllable rate nor thephone rate on...
Year
Venue
DocType
1998
ICSLP
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
1.62
3
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hartmut R. Pfitzinger16612.85