Automatic language identification with discriminative language characterization based on SVM

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E91-D, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 567-575

  Suo, Hongbin ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Lu, Ping ^a   Yan, Yonghong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Discriminative language characterization score vector; Language identification; Pair wise posterior probability estimation; Supervised speaker clustering; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTORS;

AUTOMATIC LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMMS); LANGUAGE CHARACTERIZATIONS; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; PHONE RECOGNITION LANGUAGES; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SPEAKER CLUSTERING; STATE-OF-ART SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 68149158878     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e91-d.3.567     Document Type: Article

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