Precision of phoneme boundaries derived using hidden Markov models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2879-2882

  Baghai Ravary, Ladan ^a   Kochanski, Greg ^a   Coleman, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data driven analysis; Hidden Markov models; Labelling accuracy; Mutual consistency; Phoneme alignment

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ALIGNMENT SYSTEM; AUTOMATIC LABELLING; DATA-DRIVEN ANALYSIS; HMM TRAINING; SIGNAL REPRESENTATIONS;

ALIGNMENT; DATA HANDLING; LABELS; MODEL STRUCTURES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 70450212236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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