Articulation and intelligibility

Synthesis Lectures on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-124

  Allen, Jont B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation index; Confusion matrix; Context models; Events; Features; Phone recognition; Robust speech recognition; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATION INDEX; CONFUSION MATRIX; CONTEXT MODELS; PHONE RECOGNITION; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CODES (SYMBOLS); DECODING; DISTORTION (WAVES); INFORMATION THEORY; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33751104255     PISSN: 1932121X     EISSN: 19321678     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2200/S00004ED1V01Y200508SAP001     Document Type: Article

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