Age and gender classification using fusion of acoustic and prosodic features

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2818-2821

  Meinedo, Hugo ^a   Trancoso, Isabel ^a,b  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Age; Fusion of acoustic and prosodic features; Gender; Paralinguistic challenge

Indexed keywords

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGE CLASSIFICATION; BASELINE SYSTEMS; GENDER; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; PARALINGUISTIC; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; SYSTEMS LABORATORIES; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AGE; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; FUSION OF ACOUSTIC; PARALINGUISTIC CHALLENGE;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79959823110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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