Teixeira, João PauloFreitas, Diamantino Silva2012-07-202012-07-202008Teixeira, João Paulo; Freitas, D. (2008). Phoneme dedicated ANN improves segmental duration model. In 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody. Campinas, Brasil.http://hdl.handle.net/10198/7276The Phoneme Dedicated Artificial Neural Network (PDANN) segmental duration model consists of a set of ANNs trained specifically for each phoneme segment in order to avoid miscellaneous influence of (]iffen nt. yp( S of phouem(·! segments. Therefow, each ANN is dedicated to predict the duration of a specific phoneme segment. Objective and subjective measurements of t he performance of the PDANN model were compared with those of a typical ANN model using the same input features and database.engconference object