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The topic touched on by the papers in this introductory section is the difference between spontaneous speech and careful speech produced in the laboratory. Beckman essays a panoramic taxonomy of kinds of spontaneous speech and discusses the ways in which the varieties she identifies differ with respect to prosody. Fujisaki suggests a methodology for making models. Bruce et al. present a useful summary of research on prosodic features of Swedish spontaneous speech carried out over the last several years by their group in Lund and by a cooperating group at KTH in Stockholm. These three contributions, both by what they say and by the very fact of their having been written, make it clear that spontaneous speech has quickly moved to a prominent place on the research agenda for linguists and phoneticians concerned with technological applications.
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Ladd, D.R. (1997). Introduction to Part I. In: Sagisaka, Y., Campbell, N., Higuchi, N. (eds) Computing Prosody. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2258-3_1
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