A graph-based Gaussian component clustering approach to unsupervised acoustic modeling

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 875-879

  Wang, Haipeng ^a   Lee, Tan ^a   Leung, Cheung Chi ^b   Ma, Bin ^b   Li, Haizhou ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Gaussian component clustering; Graph based clustering algorithms; Unsupervised acoustic modeling

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; CLUSTERING APPROACH; GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS; GRAPH-BASED; GRAPH-BASED CLUSTERING; NEW APPROACHES; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SUB-WORD UNITS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84910084383     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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