Age and gender detection in the I-DASH project

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Meinedo, Hugo ^a   Trancoso, Isabel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Age; Fusion of acoustic and prosodic features; Gender

Indexed keywords

AGE; BACKGROUND MODEL; CHILD ABUSE; DATA SELECTION; DETECTION SYSTEM; EUROPEAN PROJECT; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; GENDER; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; GENDER DETECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRONS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPEECH CORPORA; TEST SETS; TRAINING DATA; VIDEO MATERIAL;

DATA REDUCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80051960853     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1998384.1998387     Document Type: Article

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