Automatically learning speaker-independent acoustic subword units

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1333-1336

  Varadarajan, Balakrishnan ^a   Khudanpur, Sanjeev ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

STATE SEQUENCES; SUBWORD UNITS; SUCCESSIVE STATE SPLITTING ALGORITHMS; UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION; VITERBI;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; TELEPHONE SETS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867221475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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