A combination of speaker normalization and speech rate normalization for automatic speech recognition

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Pfau, T ^a   Faltlhauser, R ^a   Ruske, G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; NORMALIZATION FACTORS; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; RELATIVE REDUCTION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009064397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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