Exploiting variety-dependent phones in portuguese variety identification applied to broadcast news transcription

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 749-752

  Koller, Oscar ^a,b   Abad, Alberto ^a   Trancoso, Isabel ^a,c   Viana, Céu ^d  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d CLUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accent identification; Recognition of accented speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; MODELING LANGUAGES; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACCENT IDENTIFICATIONS; ACCENTED SPEECH; BROADCAST NEWS TRANSCRIPTIONS; IDENTIFICATION RATES; LANGUAGE MODELLING; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; SPECIFIC RECOGNITION; VARIETY IDENTIFICATION; IDENTIFICATION APPROACH; ITS APPLICATIONS; LANGUAGE MODEL; PHONE RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION MODELS; RECOGNITION OF ACCENTED SPEECH; VARIETIES IDENTIFICATIONS;

TELEPHONE SETS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 79959850894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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