Development of an approach to automatic language identification based on phone recognition

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-54

  Yan, Yonghong ^a   Barnard, Etienne ^a   Cole, Ronald A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; ERROR RATE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; LINEAR LANGUAGE CLASSIFIER; PHONE RECOGNITION; PHONE RECOGNIZERS; UTTERANCES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029755106     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.1996.0003     Document Type: Article

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