Dialect/accent classification via boosted word modeling

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages 585-588

  Huang, Rongqing ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD PROCESSING;

ACCENT CLASSIFICATION; DIALECT CLASSIFICATION; WORD BASED DIALECT CLASSIFICATION (WDC); WORD MODELING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33646846100     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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