Can conversational word usage be used to predict speaker demographics?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1381-1384

  Gillick, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Demographics; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); POPULATION STATISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AMERICAN ENGLISH; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DEMOGRAPHICS; DIFFERENT CLASS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TRAINING DATA; USAGE PATTERNS; DEMOGRAPHIC; GEOGRAPHICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959816279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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