Improved detection of boundaries of phonemes in speech databases

Proceedings of the 5th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMED 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 171-174

  Bergl, P ^a   Cmejla, R ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Divergence measure; HMM; Signal processing; Speech database

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BAYESIAN; BOUNDARY POSITIONS; CEPSTRAL; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; CHANGE POINTS; DIVERGENCE MEASURE; DIVERGENCE MEASURES; HMM; JEFFREYS; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCES; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MAHALANOBIS; SPECTRAL DISTANCES; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH DATABASES; TESTING SETS; TRAINING SETS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 56149096728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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