A reliable technique for detecting the second subglottal resonance and its use in cross-language speaker adaptation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1717-1720

  Wang, Shizhen ^a   Lulich, Steven M ^b,c   Alwan, Abeer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross language; Speaker adaptation; Speaker normalization; Speech recognition; VTLN

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE STUDY; LIMITED DATA; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; SPEECH CONTENT; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH SIGNALS; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; VTLN;

ACCELEROMETERS; LINGUISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RESONANCE; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867217099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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