Voice transformations for improving children's speech recognition in a publicly available dialogue system

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 297-300

  Gustafson, Joakim ^a   Sjölander, Kåre ^b  

^a Telia Research AB   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHILDREN'S SPEECH; CHILDREN'S SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; PHASE VOCODERS; PITCH SYNCHRONOUS; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; TRANSFORMATION METHODS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 56149113752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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