Towards unsupervised training of speaker independent acoustic models

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1693-1696

  Jansen, Aren ^a   Church, Kenneth ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Speaker independent acoustic models; Spectral clustering; Unsupervised training

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ACOUSTIC MODEL; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; SPECTRAL CLUSTERING; SUBWORD UNITS; TRAINING PROCESS; UNSUPERVISED TRAINING; WORD SIMILARITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84865770260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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