Improving the discrimination between native accents when recorded over different channels

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2821-2824

  Wu, Tingyao ^a   Van Compernolle, Dirk ^a   Duchateau, Jacques ^a   Yang, Qian ^b   Martens, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS CLASSIFICATION; FEATURE SELECTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM) CLASSIFIERS;

ACOUSTICS; BIT ERROR RATE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SOUND RECORDING;

EID: 33745224528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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