A corpus-based study of elderly and young speakers of european portuguese: Acoustic correlates and their impact on speech recognition performance

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 852-856

  Pellegrini, Thomas ^a   Hämäläinen, Annika ^b   De Mareüil, Philippe Boula ^c   Tjalve, Michael ^b   Trancoso, Isabel ^a,d   Candeias, Sara ^e   Dias, Miguel Sales ^b   Braga, Daniela ^b  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^e INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Acoustic correlates; Automatic speech recognition; Elderly speech; Speaker age

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEAKER AGE; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906229286     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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