Comparison of acoustic distance measures for automatic cross-language phoneme mapping

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 521-524

  Sooful, Jayren J ^a   Botha, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; MAPPING;

ACOUSTIC SIMILARITIES; APPROPRIATE DISTANCES; AUTOMATED APPROACH; AUTOMATED PROCEDURES; AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUE; BHATTACHARYYA DISTANCE; KULLBACK-LEIBLER MEASURE; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84963807024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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