Speaker Classification for Next-Generation Voice-Dialog Systems

Advances in Digital Speech Transmission

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 497-528

  Burkhardt, Felix ^a   Metze, Florian ^b   Stegmann, Joachim ^a  

^a T SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic prosodic speech signal analysis; Automatic voice dialog systems; Category specific phoneme bi grams; Classification inherent uncertainty; Emotion aware voice portals; Mixed initiative and directed dialogs; Phoneme recognition based classifiers; Very large vocabulary speaker independent speech recognizer; Voice controlled customer self service applications; Voice controlled value added services

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349258028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470727188.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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