The effects of bandwidth reduction on human and computer recognition of children's speech

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1044-1046

  Russell, Martin ^a   D'Arcy, Shona ^a   Qun, Li ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Children's speech; Pediatrics; Speech and speaker recognition; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ERROR ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER RECOGNITION; ERROR RATE; HUMAN RECOGNITION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 36749088088     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2007.906213     Document Type: Article

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