The influence of the utterance length on the recognition of aged voices

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 581-586

  Schmitt, Alexander ^a   Polzehl, Tim ^b   Minker, Wolfgang ^a   Liscombe, Jackson ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c SpeechCycle Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFIER'S PERFORMANCE; ELDERLY USERS; INTENSITY FEATURES; INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE; LINEAR KERNEL; NARROW BANDS; POOR PERFORMANCE; SPEAKING RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84865798500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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