Speaker adaptive modeling by vocal tract normalization

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 415-426

  Welling, Lutz ^b   Ney, Hermann ^a,b   Kanthak, Stephan ^b  

^a IEEE

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Speaker adaptive modeling and training; Speaker adaptive recognition; Speech recognition; Vocal tract (length) normalization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SINGLE DENSITY ACOUSTIC MODELS; SINGLE GAUSSIAN DENSITY; SPEAKER ADAPTIVE MODELING; SPEAKER ADAPTIVE RECOGNITION; VOCAL TRACT NORMALIZATION;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0036753897     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2002.803435     Document Type: Article

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