MLLR-like speaker adaptation based on linearization of VTLN with MFCC features

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 273-276

  Cui, Xiaodong ^a   Alwan, Abeer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY WARPING; MEL-FILTER-BANK; MFCC FEATURES; SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33745207149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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