OFF-LINE ACOUSTIC MODELLING OF NON-NATIVE ACCENTS

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1367-1370

  Witt, Silke ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS MODEL; BRITISH ENGLISH; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; MODEL STATE; MOTHER TONGUES; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; PERFORMANCE; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; TARGET LANGUAGE;

MAPPING;

EID: 0004682696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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