A nativeness classifier for TED talks

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5672-5675

  Lopes, José ^a,b   Trancoso, Isabel ^a,b   Abad, Alberto ^a  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Non native accent; pronunciation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; EQUAL ERROR RATE; FUSED SYSTEM; GAUSSIANS; NON-NATIVE; PRONUNCIATION; PROSODIC FEATURES;

EXPERIMENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80051638158     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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