Estimation of unknown speaker's height from speech

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 149-160

  Mporas, Iosif ^a   Ganchev, Todor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Human height estimation from speech; Regression algorithms; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

FEATURE VECTORS; HEIGHT ESTIMATION; HUMAN HEIGHT; HUMAN HEIGHT ESTIMATION FROM SPEECH; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; REGRESSION ALGORITHMS; REGRESSION MODEL; RELATIVE ERRORS; SPEECH INPUT; TIMIT DATABASE;

ALGORITHMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77949917470     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: 15728110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10772-010-9064-2     Document Type: Article

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