Voice of global information for broad-band wireless: technologies of today and challenges of tomorrow

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-56

  Lee, Lin Shan ^a   Lee, Yumin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Radio communication; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042676544     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.904505     Document Type: Article

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