Dialect/accent classification using unrestricted audio

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 453-464

  Huang, Rongqing ^a,b   Hansen, John H L ^a   Angkititrakul, Pongtep ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accent dialect classification; AdaBoost algorithm; Context adapted trianing; Dialect dependency information; Limited training data; Robust acoustic modeling; Word based modeling

Indexed keywords

ACCENT/DIALECT CLASSIFICATION; ADABOOST ALGORITHM; CONTEXT ADAPTED TRIANING; DIALECT DEPENDENCY INFORMATION; LIMITED TRAINING DATA; ROBUST ACOUSTIC MODELING; WORD-BASED MODELING;

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFIERS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 64149085238     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.881695     Document Type: Article

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