Acoustic normalization of children's speech

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1313-1316

  Stemmer, Georg ^a   Hacker, Christian ^a   Steidl, Stefan ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CHILDREN'S SPEECH; DATA-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION; NON LINEAR; SPEAKING RATE; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009160756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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