Improving initial boundary estimation for HMM-based automatic phonetic segmentation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 884-887

  Ogbureke, Kalu U ^a   Carson Berndsen, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Automatic phonetic segmentation; Gaussian mixture models; Hidden markov models

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BOUNDARY ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; MANUAL ANNOTATION; PHONETIC SEGMENTATION; SPEECH TESTS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ESTIMATION; LINGUISTICS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TOPOLOGY;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 70450178553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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