Accent detection and speech recognition for Shanghai-accented Mandarin

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 217-220

  Zheng, Yanli ^a   Sproat, Richard ^a   Gu, Liang ^b   Shafran, Izhak ^c   Zhou, Haolang ^c   Su, Yi ^c   Jurafsky, Dan ^d   Starr, Rebecca ^d   Yoon, Su Youn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCENT DETECTION; ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION; PRONUNCIATION ADAPTATION;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; VOCODERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745206107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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