Speech acoustic unit segmentation using hierarchical dirichlet processes

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 637-641

  Harati Nejad Torbati, Amir Hossein ^a   Picone, Joseph ^a   Sobel, Marc ^b  

^a Temple University   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical dirichlet processes; Nonparametric bayesian models; Speech segmentation

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HIERARCHICAL DIRICHLET PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL DIRICHLET PROCESS (HDP); LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; NON-PARAMETRIC BAYESIAN; NONPARAMETRIC BAYESIAN MODELS; SEGMENTATION AND CLUSTERING; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH SEGMENTATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84906246068     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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