This paper describes a study on tone statistics of peoples' names in Mandarin Chinese. The problem was brought out when we tried to apply an English v...

In continuous speech recognition featuring hidden Markov model (HMM), word N-gram, and time-synchronous beam search, a local modeling mismatch in the...

Transformation-based adaptation, which transforms clusters of speaker-independent (SI) hidden Markov model (HMM) parameters to an enrolled speaker by...

We propose speaker clustering methods for speech recognition based on vocal tract (VT) size related articulatory parameters associated with individual...

This study focuses on the parametric stochastic modeling of characteristic sound features that distinguish languages from one another. A new stochasti...