A COMPARISON OF TWO UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES TO ACCENT IDENTIFICATION

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Lincoln, Mike ^a   Cox, Stephen ^a   Ringland, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACCENT CLASSIFICATIONS; ACCENT IDENTIFICATIONS; ACCENTED SPEECH; ACOUSTIC APPROACHES; HIGH-LEVEL APPROACH; PERFORMANCE; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; SPEECH MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 85128396783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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