Speaker adaptive acoustic modeling with mixture of adult and children's speech

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2193-2196

  Gerosa, M ^a,b   Giuliani, D ^b   Brugnara, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR NONVOCAL PERSONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AGE-INDEPENDENT ACOUSTIC MODELS; GROUP-SPECIFIC MODELS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEAKER ADAPTIVE ACOUSTIC MODELING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745219452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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