Advances in regional accent clustering in Swedish

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2841-2844

  Salvi, Giampiero ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CLUSTERING; MODEL PARAMETERS; PRONUNCIATION; SWEDISH;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33745225165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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