Dialect recognition using a phone-GMM-supervector-based SVM kernel

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 753-756

  Biadsy, Fadi ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a   Collins, Michael ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS;

ARABIC DIALECTS; KERNEL FUNCTION; NEW APPROACHES; PHONOTACTIC APPROACHES; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; SUPERVECTOR; SVM CLASSIFIERS; GMM/UBM; MOST LIKELY; PERFORMANCE;

TELEPHONE SETS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79959857489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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