Context-dependent phoneme duration modeling with tree-based state tying

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E88-D, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 662-666

  Park, Sung Joon ^a   Koo, Myoung Wan ^a   Jhon, Chu Shik ^b  

^a KT Cooperation   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Duration model; Gamma distribution; Tree based state tying

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTEXT-DEPENDENT DURATION MODELING; CONTEXT-INDEPENDENT PHONEMES; DURATION MODEL; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; PHONEMES;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 24144455395     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.3.662     Document Type: Article

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