Unsupervised hierarchical adaptation using reliable selection of cluster-dependent parameters

Speech Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 235-253

  Chien, Jen Tzung ^a   Junqua, Jean Claude ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Panasonic Corporation of North America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); SPEAKER ADAPTATION; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033882107     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00052-7     Document Type: Article

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