Methods for transcription and forced alignment of a legacy speech corpus

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Olsen, Rachel M ^a   Olsen, Michael L ^a   Stanley, Joseph A ^a   Renwick, Margaret E L ^a   Kretzschmar, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; LINGUISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; DIGITAL ARCHIVES; LARGE CORPORA; NON SPEECH; ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION; SPEECH CORPORA; VOWEL SPACE;

SPEECH;

EID: 85030157202     PISSN: 1939800X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1121/2.0000559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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