N-Channel Hidden Markov Models for Combined Stressed Speech Classification and Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 668-676

  Womack, Brian David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Lombard effect; N channel markov model; Speech recognition; Stress classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942564603     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.799692     Document Type: Article

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