SPEECH FEATURE EXTRACTION USING WEIGHTED HIGHER-ORDER LOCAL AUTO-CORRELATION

Yasuo Ariki (Japan), Tetsuya Takiguchi (Japan), Takashi Muroi (Japan) and Ryoichi Takashima (Japan)

Received June 16, 2009

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Keywords and phrases: phoneme recognition, feature extraction, Fisher weight map, local auto-correlation.