Dialect distance assessment method based on comparison of pitch pattern statistical models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5158-5161

  Mehrabani, Mahnoosh ^a   Bořil, Hynek ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Dialect distance assessment; Pitch patterns

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DIALECT DISTANCE ASSESSMENT; DISTANCE MEASURE; MANUAL LABELING; PERFORMANCE; PITCH PATTERN; PITCH-CONTOUR; SPEECH SYSTEMS; STATISTIC MODELING; SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE; TEST DATA;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 78049414053     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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