Automatic Phonetic Segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 617-625

  Toledano, Doroteo Torre ^a,b   Hernández Gómez, Luis A ^c   Villarrubia Grande, Luis ^a  

^a Speech Technology Group   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Speech analysis; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATIC PHONETIC SEGMENTATION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0347968276     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.813579     Document Type: Article

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