ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The syllable has been proposed as a unit of automatic speech recognition due to its strong links with human speech production and perception. Recently, it has been proved that incorporating information ...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are an attractive means for companies to deliver value added services with which to improve customer satisfaction. Such ASR systems require a telephony interface to connect the ...

The Gaussian mixture model (GMM) performs very effectively in applications such as speech and speaker recognition. However, evaluation speed is greatly reduced when the GMM has a large number of mixture components. ...