Comparative analysis of formants of British, American and Australian accents

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 137-140

  Ghorshi, Seyed ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^a   Yan, Qin ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accent; Cross entropy; Formants; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACCENT; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CROSS ENTROPY; FORMANT ESTIMATION; FORMANTS; INFORMATION MEASURES; LINEAR PREDICTION MODELS; SPEAKER VARIABILITY;

SPEECH;

EID: 44949168431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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