Adaptation of hidden Markov model for telephone speech recognition and speaker adaptation

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 129-135

  Chien, J T ^a   Wang H C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Hidden markov model

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELEPHONE SETS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); PHONE DEPENDENT CHANNEL COMPENSATION (PDCC); SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031152825     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:19971049     Document Type: Article

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