Dialect and accent recognition using phonetic-segmentation supervectors

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 745-748

  Biadsy, Fadi ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a   Ellis, Daniel P W ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; KERNEL APPROACHES; KERNEL FUNCTION; SINGLE VECTORS; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TIME COMPLEXITY;

LINGUISTICS; TELEPHONE SETS;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865798079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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