Vocal tract normalization equals linear transformation in cepstral space

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2653-2656

  Pitz, Michael ^a   Molau, Sirko ^a   Schlüter, Ralf ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JACOBIAN MATRICES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CEPSTRAL DOMAIN; FREQUENCY WARPING; JACOBIAN DETERMINANTS; PIECEWISE LINEAR; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; TRANSFORMATION MATRICES; WARPING FUNCTION;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 85009089020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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