Generation of phonetic units for mixed-language speech recognition based on acoustic and contextual analysis

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1225-1233

  Huang, Chien Lin ^a   Wu, Chung Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hyperspace analog to language; Mixed language speech recognition; Multidimensional scaling; Phonetic unit

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HYPERSPACE ANALOG TO LANGUAGE; MIXED-LANGUAGE SPEECH RECOGNITION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; PHONETIC UNIT;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548268080     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.1064     Document Type: Article

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