Maximum mutual information speaker adapted training with semi-tied covariance matrices

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 128-131

  McDonough, John ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRICES;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0141703323     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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