CROSS-entropic comparison of the effects of accent, speaker and database recording on spectral features of English accents

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2365-2369

  Ghorshi, Seyed ^a   Vaseghi, Saeed ^a   Yan, Qin ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accent; Cepstrum; Cross entropy; Formant; Phonetic tree clustering

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACCENT; CEPSTRUM; CROSS ENTROPY; FORMANT; TREE CLUSTERING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 70450164702     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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