The RACAD speech corpus of New Brunswick Acadian French: Design and applications

Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 3-10

  Cichocki, Wladyslaw ^a   Selouani, Sid Ahmed ^b   Beaulieu, Louise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; HIGH-QUALITY AUDIO; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION MODELS; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH CORPORA; WORD RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 60349117924     PISSN: 07116659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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