Analysis of gender normalization using MLP and VTLN features

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 306-309

  Schaaf, Thomas ^a   Metze, Florian ^b  

^a M Modal   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Phonetic context tree; Speaker normalization; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

BOTTLES; DECISION TREES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONTEXT CLUSTERING; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PHONETIC CONTEXT TREE; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYZE; MULTILAYERS PERCEPTRONS; NORMALISATION; PAPER ANALYSIS; POWER; STACKINGS; VOCAL-TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959812202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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