Segmental eigenvoice with delicate eigenspace for improved speaker adaptation

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 399-411

  Tsao, Yu ^a   Lee, Shang Ming ^a   Lee, Lin Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Eigenvector approach; Principal component analysis; Speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VECTORS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); EIGENVECTOR APPROACH; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER DEPENDENT (SD);

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 18744411268     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.845819     Document Type: Article

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