We present the DUEL corpus, consisting of 24 hours of natural, face-to-face, loosely task-
directed dialogue in German, French and Mandarin Chinese. The corpus is uniquely …

Speech conveys not only linguistic information but also supplemental information that is not
inferable from written language, such as attitude, speaking style, intention, emotion, mental …

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of different approaches for estimating
the articulation rates in connected speech of Parkinsonian patients with different stages of …

Automatic word count estimation (WCE) from audio recordings can be used to quantify the
amount of verbal communication in a recording environment. One key application of WCE is …

It is with great satisfaction that we welcome the publication of Rhapsodie: a Prosodic and
Syntactic Treebank for Spoken French. is volume follows the conclusion of the Rhapsodie …

La transformation de la durée brute d'une pause peut s' opérer en relativisant celle des
syllabes environnantes. Cette approche a été appliquée par Lacheret et al.(2013) pour la …

This chapter describes a generic, integrated approach to the analy sis of speech prosody,
covering its acoustic, perceptual, and linguistic manifestations, as well as the relationships …

Automatic detection of prominence in speech has attracted interest in recent years due to its
multiple uses in spoken language applications. However, typical approaches require …

The automatic detection of prosodically prominent syllables is crucial for analysing speech,
especially in French where prominence contributes substantially to prosodic grou** and …

In this paper we will investigate the usefulness of the rhythmogram, a speech rhythm
representation based on the Auditory Primal Sketch model, for the automatic detection of …