ACCDIST: A Metric for comparing speakers' accents

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 29-32

  Huckvale, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ACCENT CLASSIFICATIONS; BRITISH ISLES; ERROR RATE; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 85009063603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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