Speaker adaptation method for call systems using bilingual speakers' utterances

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2929-2932

  Suzuki, Motoyuki ^a   Ogasawara, Hirokazu ^a   Ito, Akinori ^a   Ohkawa, Yuichi ^a   Makino, Shozo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; BASELINE METHODS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; PHONEME RECOGNITION; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRAINING ALGORITHMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745189038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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