Acoustic model adaptation using in-domain background models for dysarthric speech recognition

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1147-1162

  Sharma, Harsh Vardhan ^a,b   Hasegawa Johnson, Mark ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic model; Adaptation; Dysarthria; HMM; MAP; UBM

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADAPTATION; DYSARTHRIA; HMM; UBM;

ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; MAPS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 84879086350     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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