A pitch extraction algorithm tuned for automatic speech recognition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2494-2498

  Ghahremani, Pegah ^a   Babaali, Bagher ^b   Povey, Daniel ^a   Riedhammer, Korbinian ^c   Trmal, Jan ^a   Khudanpur, Sanjeev ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c ICSI   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Speech Recognition; Pitch; Probability Of Voicing; Tone

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; HARD DECISIONS; NON-TONAL LANGUAGES; PITCH; PITCH EXTRACTION; TONAL LANGUAGES; TONE;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84905252790     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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