Robust Recognition of Children's Speech

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 603-616

  Potamianos, Alexandros ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Children; Formant scaling; Robustness; Speaker normalization; Vocal tract normalization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; VOCAL TRACT NORMALIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0347338002     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.818026     Document Type: Article

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