Can voice quality improve mandarin tone recognition?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4177-4180

  Surendran, Dinoj ^a   Levow, Gina Anne ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Speech processing; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TONE RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 51449100007     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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