Improved tone recognition by normalizing for coarticulation and intonation effects

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Wang, Chao ^a   Seneff, Stephanie ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; CO-ARTICULATION; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; NOCV2; PHRASE BOUNDARY; TONE MODELING; TONE RECOGNITION; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33646659867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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