Discrimination between mothers' infant- and adult-directed speech using hidden Markov models

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-70

  Inoue, Takao ^a   Nakagawa, Ryuta ^b   Kondou, Misa ^a   Koga, Tadashi ^c   Shinohara, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASAHI KASEI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; Human interface; MFCC; Motherese; Speaker independent emotion recognition systems; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEARING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955483225     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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