A Study on Speaker Adaptation of the Parameters of Continuous Density Hidden Markov Models

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 806-814

  Lee, Chin Hui ^a   Juang, Biing Hwang ^a   Lin, Chih Heng ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO LTD   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN LEARNING PROCEDURE; MARKOV MODELS;

SPEECH;

EID: 0026142334     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: 19410476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.80902     Document Type: Article

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