Dialect classification via discriminative training

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 735-738

  Lei, Yun ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; DIALOG SYSTEMS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GENERALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; MAJOR FACTORS; SPEECH SYSTEMS; SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SECURITY OF DATA; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867219365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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