Foreign Speaker Accent Classification using Phoneme-Dependent Accent Discrimination Models and Comparisons with Human Perception Benchmarks

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2323-2326

  Kumpf, Karsten ^a   King, Robin W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACCENT CLASSIFICATIONS; CLASSIFICATION RATES; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; DISCRIMINATION MODEL; HUMAN PERCEPTION; NEW APPROACHES; PHONEME CLASS; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; VIETNAMESE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85135151046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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