Acoustic analysis and automatic recognition of spontaneous children's speech

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1886-1889

  Gerosa, M ^a   Giuliani, D ^a   Narayanan, S ^b  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Children's speech; Speech analysis; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949220353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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