Investigating fuzzy-input fuzzy-output support vector machines for robust voice quality classification

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 263-287

  Scherer, Stefan ^a,c   Kane, John ^b   Gobl, Christer ^b   Schwenker, Friedhelm ^c  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross corpus analysis; Fuzzy classification; Fuzzy input fuzzy output support vector machines; LF model; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE STATE; CORPUS ANALYSIS; CROSS VALIDATION; FUZZY CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY MEASURES; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LABEL INFORMATION; LF-MODEL; SPEAKER DEPENDENTS; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; TRAINING AND TESTING; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE QUALITY FEATURES;

EXPERIMENTS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84867329306     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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