Relevance of time-frequency features for phonetic and speaker-channel classification

Speech Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-50

  Yang, Howard Hua ^a   Van Vuuren, Sarel ^a   Sharma, Sangita ^a   Hermansky, Hynek ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Input selection; Multi layer perceptron; Mutual information; Phonetic classification; Sources of variability; Spectral feature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002915083     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00007-8     Document Type: Article

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