Speaker normalization based on subglottal resonances

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4277-4280

  Wang, Shizhen ^a   Alwan, Aber ^a   Lulich, Steven M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Speaker adaptation; Speaker normalization; Speech recognition; Subglottal resonance; VTLN

Indexed keywords

SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SUBGLOTTAL RESONANCE; VTLN;

ACOUSTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WELL TESTING;

RESONANCE;

EID: 51449092236     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518600     Document Type: Conference Paper

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