Detection of speech landmarks: Use of temporal information

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1296-1305

  Salomon, Ariel ^a,b   Espy Wilson, Carol Y ^a   Deshmukh, Om ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS;

ACCURACY; APERIODIC CONTENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; ENERGY OFFSET; ENERGY ONSET; ERROR; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; INFORMATION; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; PARAMETER; PERIODIC CONTENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH SIGNAL; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; TIME; TIMIT TEST DATABASE;

ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUTOMATISM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542376760     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1646400     Document Type: Article

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