Evaluating speech features with the minimal-pair ABX task: Analysis of the classical MFC/PLP pipeline

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1781-1785

  Schatz, Thomas ^a,b   Peddinti, Vijayaditya ^c   Bach, Francis ^b   Jansen, Aren ^c   Hermansky, Hynek ^c   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation framework; Minimal pair ABX task; Speech representations; Zero resource

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DISCRIMINATION TASKS; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; MINIMAL-PAIR ABX TASK; SPEECH FEATURES; ZERO-RESOURCE;

PIPELINES;

EID: 84906230757     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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