Speaker clustering for speech recognition using the parameters characterizing vocal-tract dimensions

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 981-984

  Naito, Masaki ^a   Deng, Li ^a,b   Sagisaka, Yoshinori ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING METHODS; JAPANESE VOWELS; PARAMETERS CHARACTERIZING; PHONEME RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION ERROR; SPEAKER CLUSTERING; TWO PARAMETER; VOCAL-TRACTS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33847268014     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.675431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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