Feature extraction and acoustic modeling: An approach for improved generalization across languages and accents

Proceedings of ASRU 2005: 2005 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 29-34

  Dupont, Stéphane ^a   Ris, Christophe ^a   Deroo, Olivier ^b   Poitoux, Sébastien ^b  

^a Multitel   (Belgium)

^b Acapela Group   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD PROCESSING;

PHONETIC UNITS; PRONUNCIATION VARIATIONS; SPEECH MATERIALS; STATE LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33846194657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2005.1566527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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