A probabilistic framework for landmark detection based on phonetic features for automatic speech recognition

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1154-1168

  Juneja, Amit ^a   Espy Wilson, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; BINARY CODES; CORRELATION METHODS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INVARIANCE; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

ACOUSTIC CUES; BINARY CLASSIFIERS; LANDMARK DETECTION; MANNER PHONETIC FEATURES; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; SONORANT CONSONANT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENT; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; CUES; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHONETICS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE;

EID: 38849200444     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2823754     Document Type: Article

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