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Human listeners use lexical stress for word segmentation and disambiguation. We look into using lexical stress for speech recognition by examining a Dutch-language corpus. We propose that different spectral features are needed for different phonemes and that, besides vowels, consonants should be taken into account.
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van Dalen, R.C., Wiggers, P., Rothkrantz, L.J.M. (2005). Modelling Lexical Stress. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Pavelka, T. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3658. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551874_27
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