Speaker Normalization through Constrained MLLR Based Transforms

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2893-2896

  Giuliani, D ^a   Gerosa, M ^a,b   Brugnara, F ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; METADATA;

ACOUSTIC VARIABILITY; AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; BASELINE SYSTEMS; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD LINEAR REGRESSION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; TRAINING AND TESTING; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009110337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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