Speaker Adaptation Using Constrained Estimation of Gaussian Mixtures

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 357-366

  Digalakis, Vassilios V ^a   Rtischev, Dimitry ^a   Neumeyer, Leonardo G ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ESTIMATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONSTRAINED ESTIMATION TECHNIQUE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LARGE VOCABULARY RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION ERROR RATES; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029375590     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.466659     Document Type: Article

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