Ageing voices: The effect of changes in voice parameters on ASR performance

Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Vipperla, Ravichander ^a   Renals, Steve ^a   Frankel, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77951433506     PISSN: 16874714     EISSN: 16874722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/525783     Document Type: Article

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