Speaker age estimation for elderly speech recognition in European Portuguese

Phone-like acoustic models (AMs) used in large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are usually trained with speech collected from young adult speakers. Using such models, ASR performance may decrease by about 10% absolute when transcribing elderly speech. Ageing is known to alter s...

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Main Author: Dias, J. (author)
Other Authors: Pellegrini, T (author), Hedayati, V. (author), Trancoso, I. (author), Hämäläinen, A. (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/25451
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/25451