Unsupervised discriminative training with application to dialect classification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2444-2453

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

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

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accent and dialect; Accent classification; Automatic dialect classification; Discriminative training; English dialects; Frame selection Gaussian mixture model (FS GMM); Gaussian mixture selection; Minimum classification error (MCE); Spanish dialects

Indexed keywords

ACCENT AND DIALECT; ACCENT CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC DIALECT CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; ENGLISH DIALECTS; FRAME SELECTION GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (FS-GMM); GAUSSIAN MIXTURE SELECTION; MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR (MCE); SPANISH DIALECTS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; MIXTURES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH PROCESSING; TRELLIS CODES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 64349112944     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.903302     Document Type: Article

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