Perceptual speech processing and phonetic feature mapping for robust vowel recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-114

  Bu, Linkai ^a   Chiueh, Tzi Dar ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONTINUOUS HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM)-BASED RECOGNITION STAGE; PERCEPTUAL SPEECH PROCESSING; PHONETIC FEATURE MAPPING; ROBUST VOWEL RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033892424     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.824695     Document Type: Article

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