Acoustic Feature Analysis and Discriminative Modeling of Filled Pauses for Spontaneous Speech Recognition

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 91-104

  Wu, Chung Hsien ^a   Yan, Gwo Lang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Disfluency; Filled pause; Guassian mixture model; Karhunen Lo ve transform; Linear discriminant analysis; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DISFLUENCY; FILLED PAUSE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; KARHUNEN-LOEVE TRANSFORM; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 1542783199     PISSN: 13875485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:vlsi.0000015089.17975.f4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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