A partitioned neural network approach for vowel classification using smoothed time/frequency features

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 414-425

  Zahorian, Stephen A ^a   Nossair, Zaki B ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Classifier improvement and comparisons; Feature extraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DECISION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; CLASSIFICATION DECISION; DELTA CEPSTRA; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY; SMOOTHED TIME FREQUENCY FEATURES; VOWEL CLASSIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032645649     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.771263     Document Type: Article

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