Text independent methods for speech segmentation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3445 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 261-290

  Esposito, Anna ^a,b,c   Aversano, Guido ^b,c,d  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b IIASS   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; PARAMETRIC SEGMENTATION; SPEECH CORPORA ANNOTATION; SPEECH SEGMENTATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 26844465977     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11520153_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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