An integrated approach to the detection and classification of accents/dialects for a spoken document retrieval system

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 35-40

  Gray, Sharmistha ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

MONO-PHONE BASED STM (MP-STM); SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL (SDR) SYSTEM; STOCHASTIC TRAJECTORY MODEL (STM);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846226678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2005.1566480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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