Language Identification Using Spectral and Prosodic Features

• Main Authors: Rao, K. Sreenivasa (Author), Reddy, V. Ramu (Author), Maity, Sudhamay (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational linguistics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Computational Linguistics.

This book discusses the impact of spectral features extracted from frame level, glottal closure regions, and pitch-synchronous analysis on the performance of language identification systems. In addition to spectral features, the authors explore prosodic features such as intonation, rhythm, and stres...

Table of Contents:

•  Introduction.- Literature Review
• Language Identification using Spectral Features
• Language Identification using Prosodic Features
• Summary and Conclusions
• Appendix A: LPCC Features
• Appendix B: MFCC Features
•  Appendix C: Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM).