Using accent information in ASR models for Swedish

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2677-2680

  Salvi, Giampiero ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BHATTACHARYYA DISTANCE; DEGREE OF VARIABILITY; GAUSSIAN MODEL; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; RECOGNITION ACCURACY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80052770597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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