Unsupervised speech segmentation: An analysis of the hypothesized phone boundaries

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1084-1095

  Scharenborg, Odette ^a   Wan, Vincent ^b   Ernestus, Mirjam ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INFORMATION; BOUNDARY DETECTION; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; SEGMENT DURATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPDOWN; TWO STAGE; UNSUPERVISED METHOD; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

ACOUSTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

TELEPHONE SETS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELEPHONE; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76349093829     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3277194     Document Type: Article

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