Dialect classification via text-independent training and testing for Arabic, Spanish, and Chinese

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-96

  Lei, Yun ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic dialects; dialect classification; frame selection; Gaussian mixture; KullbackLeibler divergence; Spanish dialects

Indexed keywords

ARABIC DIALECTS; DIALECT CLASSIFICATION; FRAME SELECTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; SPANISH DIALECTS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 77957734352     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2045184     Document Type: Article

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