Synthesizing English emphatic speech for multimodal corrective feedback in computer-aided pronunciation training
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عنوان ژورنال: Multimedia Tools and Applications
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1380-7501,1573-7721
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-013-1601-y