Research on the exploitation of prosodic information in the comprehension of spoken
language is reviewed. The research falls into three main areas: the use of prosody in the …

Research into listening over the past three decades has, above all, highlighted the
fundamental intricacy of the processes involved. In order to make sense of spoken …

Theory and Applications of Digital Speech Processing is ideal for graduate students in
digital signal processing, and undergraduate students in Electrical and Computer …

In two editions spanning more than a decade, The Electrical Engineering Handbook stands
as the definitive reference to the multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering. Our …

The results of a production experiment show that English speakers distinguish elements
under contrastive focus from elements that are merely new in the discourse. A novel …

Recent technological advances have enabled human users to interact with computers in
ways previously unimaginable. Beyond the confines of the keyboard and mouse, new …

Interest in the contribution prosodic information makes to human communication has led to
increasing expectations that such information could be of use in text-to-speech and speech …

The linguistic description of the intonation systems of different languages, like that of any
other aspect of language, can be thought of as a rather indirect process of extracting …

Recent technological advances have enabled human users to interact with computers in
ways previously unimaginable. Beyond the confines of the keyboard and mouse, new …

Recent technological advances have enabled human users to interact with computers in
ways previously unimaginable. Beyond the confines of the keyboard and mouse, new …