Vowel recognition from articulatory position time-series data

3rd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ICSPCS'2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wang, Jun ^a   Samal, Ashok ^a   Green, Jordan R ^b   Carrell, Tom D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulatory speech recognition; Decision tree; Neural network; Support vector machine; Time series

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; LINGUISTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TIME SERIES; VECTORS;

ARTICULATORY FEATURES; ARTICULATORY SPEECH RECOGNITION; FIXED WIDTH; NETWORK SUPPORT; NEURAL-NETWORKS; NEW APPROACHES; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; TIME-SERIES DATA; TIMES SERIES; VOWEL RECOGNITION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 70649090415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4783353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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