Age recognition for spoken dialogue systems: Do we need it?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1435-1438

  Wolters, Maria ^a   Vipperla, Ravichander ^a   Renals, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age recognition; Cognitive ageing; Keyword spotting; Pitch

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AGE GROUPS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CHRONOLOGICAL AGE; KEYWORD SPOTTING; LEXICAL FEATURES; OLDER USERS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450180871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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