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Publication
INTERSPEECH - Eurospeech 2001
Conference paper
Classification of transition sounds with application to automatic speech recognition
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of classification of speech transition sounds. A number of non parametric classifiers are compared, and it is shown that some non-parametric classifiers have considerable advantages over traditional hidden Markov models. Among the non-parametric classifiers, support vector machines were found the most suitable and the easiest to tune. Some of the reasons for the superiority of non-parametric classifiers will be discussed. The algorithm was tested on the voiced stop consonant phones extracted from the TIMIT corpus and resulted in very low error rates.