A linguistically-informative approach to dialect recognition using dialect-discriminating context-dependent phonetic models

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5014-5017

  Chen, Nancy F ^a   Shen, Wade ^a   Campbell, Joseph P ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialect recognition; Phonetic rules

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

BI-PHONES; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; DIALECT RECOGNITION; MONOPHONES; PERFORMANCE; PHONE RECOGNITION FOLLOWED BY LANGUAGE MODELING; PHONETIC RULE; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED LEARNING; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 78049389407     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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