Automatic sound-imitation word recognition from environmental sounds focusing on ambiguity problem in determining phonemes

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3157, Issue , 2004, Pages 909-918

  Ishihara, Kazushi ^a   Nakatani, Tomohiro ^b   Ogata, Tetsuya ^a   Okuno, Hiroshi G ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); SOUND-IMITATION WORDS (SIW); WORD RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC TAGGING; COMPUTER HUMAN INTERACTION; COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOUND ARCHIVES; SOUND-IMITATION WORDS;

WORD PROCESSING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 22944489210     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-28633-2_96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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