SPEAKER NORMALIZATION AND SPEAKER ADAPTATION - A COMBINATION FOR CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH RECOGNITION

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2087-2090

  Zhan, Puming ^a   Westphal, Martin ^a   Finke, Michael ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE DECODING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BARK SCALE; COMBINED SYSTEM; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH RECOGNITION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD LINEAR REGRESSION; NORMALIZATION METHODS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; VOCAL TRACT SHAPE; VOCAL-TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATIONS; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78449240909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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