On the use of phone log-likelihood ratios as features in spoken language recognition

2012 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 274-279

  Diez, Mireia ^a   Varona, Amparo ^a   Penagarikano, Mikel ^a   Rodriguez Fuentes, Luis Javier ^a   Bordel, German ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

iVectors; Log Likelihood Ratios; Phone Posterior Probabilities; Spoken Language Recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC APPROACHES; DYNAMIC COEFFICIENT; FEATURE SETS; I-VECTORS; LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SPOKEN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84874278735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2012.6424235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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