Automatic voice onset time detection for unvoiced stops (/p/,/t/,/k/) with application to accent classification

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 777-789

  Hansen, John H L ^a   Gray, Sharmistha S ^a   Kim, Wooil ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Accent classification; Teager Energy Operator (TEO); Voice Onset Region (VOR); Voice Onset Time (VOT)

Indexed keywords

ACCENT DETECTION; ACCENTED SPEECH; AMERICAN ENGLISH; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION RATES; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DETECTION SCHEME; FEATURE PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY RESOLUTIONS; MELLIN TRANSFORM; NON-LINEAR; PARAMETERIZING; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEAGER ENERGY OPERATORS; TEMPORAL FEATURES; TRACKING ALGORITHM; TURKISHS; VOICE ONSET TIME;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY BANDS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77955426516     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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