An acoustic-phonetic feature-based system for the automatic recognition of fricative consonants

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 961-964

  Abdelatty Ali, Ahmed M ^a   Van Der Spiegel, Jan ^a   Mueller, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Corticon Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; FRICATIVE CONSONANTS; FRONT-END PROCESSING; INFORMATION CONTENTS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RECOGNITION PROCESS; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70349477167     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.675426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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