Advances in word based dialect/accent classification

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2241-2244

  Huang, Rongqing ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VOCABULARY CONTROL; WORD PROCESSING;

CONTEXT ADAPTED TRAINING (CAT) ALGORITHMS; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION (LVCSR) BASED SYSTEMS; WORD BASED DIALECT CLASSIFICATION (WDC);

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 33745286012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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