Spoken language recognition using ensemble classifiers

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2053-2062

  Ma, Bin ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a   Tong, Rong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Component classifier selection; Ensemble classifiers; Output codes; Spoken language recognition

Indexed keywords

BINARY CLASSIFICATIONS; BINARY CLASSIFIERS; CEPSTRAL FEATURES; CODING STRATEGIES; COMPONENT CLASSIFIER SELECTION; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE VECTORS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SPACES; MULTI CLASS; OUTPUT CODES; POLYNOMIAL EXPANSIONS; SPEECH UTTERANCES; SPOKEN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION;

CLASSIFIERS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 60849102345     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.902861     Document Type: Article

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