Using prosody and phonotactics in Arabic dialect identification

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 208-211

  Biadsy, Fadi ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; COMMUNICATION MODE; DIALECT IDENTIFICATION; EGYPTIANS; IDENTIFICATION ACCURACY; MODERN STANDARDS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450162217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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