Mandarin vowel pronunciation quality evaluation by a novel formant classification method and its combination with traditional algorithms

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5061-5064

  Pan, Fuping ^a   Zhao, Qingwei ^a   Yan, Yonghong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Computer assisted language learning; Formant; Gabor feature; Neural network; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER NETWORKS; CORRELATION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING; FORMANT; GABOR FEATURE; NEURAL NETWORK; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 51449124345     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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