Discovering phone patterns in spoken utterances by non-negative matrix factorization

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 15, Issue , 2008, Pages 131-134

  Stouten, Veronique ^a   Demuynck, Kris ^a   Van Hamme, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Matrix factorization; Phone lattices; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; MATRIX FACTORIZATION; NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION ALGORITHMS; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; PHONE LATTICES; PRIOR INFORMATION; SEGMENTATION AND CLUSTERING; SPEECH UTTERANCE; WORD SEGMENTATION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; FACE RECOGNITION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LINGUISTICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS;

FACTORIZATION;

EID: 67650137748     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2007.911723     Document Type: Article

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