Improved automatic speech recognition through speaker normalization

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-123

  Giuliani, Diego ^a   Gerosa, Matteo ^a,b   Brugnara, Fabio ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC MODELING; ACOUSTIC VARIABILITY; MARKOV MODELS; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 27744595137     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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