Discriminative phonotactics for dialect recognition using context-dependent phone classifiers

Odyssey 2010: Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 263-270

  Biadsy, Fadi ^a   Soltau, Hagen ^b   Mangu, Lidia ^b   Navratil, Jiri ^b   Hirschberg, Julia ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELEPHONE SETS;

ARABIC DIALECTS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; EQUAL ERROR RATE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION CLASSIFIER; MOST LIKELY; NEW APPROACHES; SPEECH UTTERANCE; SVM CLASSIFIERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85073120304     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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