Analysis and recognition of spontaneous speech using Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese

Speech Communication

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 208-219

  Furui, Sadaoki ^a   Nakamura, Masanobu ^a   Ichiba, Tomohisa ^a   Iwano, Koji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Cepstrum; Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese; Speaking rate; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CEPSTRUM; CORPUS OF SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; SPEAKING RATE; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 24144462548     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.02.010     Document Type: Article

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