Multi-parameter frequency warping for VTLN by gradient search

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Panchapagesan, Sankaran ^a   Alwan, Abeer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD PROCESSING;

FREQUENCY WARPING; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION (VTLN); WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33947620076     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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