Automatic accent identification using Gaussian mixture models

2001 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2001 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 343-346

  Chen, Too ^b   Huang, Chao ^a   Chang, E ^a   Wang, Jingehan ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ACCENT IDENTIFICATIONS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MOST LIKELY; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; SPEAKER VARIABILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84962855264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2001.1034657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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