Children's speech recognition with application to interactive books and tutors

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 186-191

  Hagen, Andreas ^a   Pellom, Bryan ^a   Cole, Ranald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC VARIABILITY; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; BASELINE SYSTEMS; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; CHILDREN'S SPEECH RECOGNITION; INTERACTIVE BOOKS; RELATIVE REDUCTION; TRAINING SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946707630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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