Accession Number:

ADA026416

Title:

Computer Algorithms for the Extraction and Application of Stress Contours from Continuous Speech Sentences,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

PURDUE UNIV LAFAYETTE IND SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Sargent,Douglas C.
• Fu,K. S.

Report Date:

1975-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

227.0

Abstract:

Past research in speech recognition has emphasized the need to apply prosodic feature information when making decisions at the phonetic and lexical levels. Of particular interest has been a means by which the stress contour of a continuous speech sentence could be obtained without first performing phonetic recognition. The availability of such stress information permitted 1 More accurate vowel recognition by determining beforehand the reliability of a phonemes formant structure, 2 Word boundary detection, and 3 A partial estimate of a passages syntactic structure.

Descriptors:

• *ALGORITHMS
• *COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
• *SPEECH RECOGNITION
• STRESSES
• LEXICOGRAPHY
• PHONETICS
• SYLLABLES
• VOWELS

Subject Categories:

• Voice Communications

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE