Applying vocal tract length normalization to meeting recordings

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 265-268

  Garau, Giulia ^a   Renals, Steve ^a   Hain, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

CONVERSATIONAL PARTNER; SPEAKER-SPECIFIC WARPING; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALISATION (VTLN); WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33745199182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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