Automatic evaluation of prosodic features of tracheoesophageal substitute voice
✍ Scribed by Tino Haderlein; Elmar Nöth; Hikmet Toy; Anton Batliner; Maria Schuster; Ulrich Eysholdt; Joachim Hornegger; Frank Rosanowski
- Book ID
- 106083216
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 311 KB
- Volume
- 264
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0302-9530
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