Automatic language identification: an alternative approach to phonetic modelling

Signal Processing

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1231-1244

  Pellegrino, François ^a   Andre Obrecht, Régine ^a  

^a IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ACOUSTIC PHONETIC DECODING; AUTOMATIC LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; LANGUAGE MODELLING; MULTI LINGUAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; VOWEL INFORMATION; VOWEL SYSTEM MODELLING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0034227923     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(00)00032-3     Document Type: Article

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