An analysis of the causes of increased error rates in children's speech recognition

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2337-2340

  Li, Qun ^a   Russell, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; SPEECH; TEACHING;

BANDWIDTH REDUCTIONS; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; CHILDREN'S SPEECH RECOGNITION; ERROR RATE; PERFORMANCE VARIATIONS; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; SMALL POPULATION; SPEAKING STYLES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009291880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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