Why is automatic recognition of children's speech difficult?

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2671-2674

  Li, Qun ^a   Russell, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ANALYSIS WINDOWS; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; AVERAGE VALUES; BANDWIDTH REDUCTIONS; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; FORMANT FREQUENCY; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SCALE FILTER;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 3042599293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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