Partial change accent models for accented Mandarin speech recognition

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 111-116

  Liu, Yi ^a   Fung, Pascale ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; MANDARIN SPEECH RECOGNITION; MODEL RESOLUTION; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; PHONETIC CONFUSIONS; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84912101967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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