An investigation of modelling aspects for rate-dependent speech recognition

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2527-2530

  Wrede, Britta ^a   Fink, Gernot A ^a   Sagerer, Gerhard ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

GENERAL MODEL; MODEL-DRIVEN; RATE DEPENDENT; RATE-DEPENDENT MODELS; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH RATES; TRANSFORMATION BASED;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84892320894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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