A quantitative model for formant dynamics and contextually assimilated reduction in fluent speech

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 981-984

  Deng, Li ^a   Yu, Dong ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; BAYESIAN GENERATIVE MODELS; CENTRAL COMPONENT; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; PRIOR INFORMATION; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; QUANTITATIVE EFFECTS; QUANTITATIVE MODELING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84876465692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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