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Acoustic Word Embeddings for Low Resource Speech Processing with Herman Kamper - TWiML Talk #191

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Is the Language Universal?

The window length and the stride essentiallye the step length. Could it be that these values that are traditional us don't work as well, or are they more properties of human speech than of a given language? Hem, that supercu question. i think if you read the original papers in the lte late eighties and early nineties describing these techniques,. A lot of these things were inspired by an the human perceptual system. They were hand designed to match what they we know about the human perceptions. And now we apply these things to zulu and songa and other languages, and we see that it's just very hard to get systems to work as well as they do on english.

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