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Speech recognition consists of converting input sound into a sequence phonemes, then finding text for the using language models. Therefore, phoneme classification performance is critical factor successful implementation speech system. However, correctly distinguishing phonemes with similar characteristics still challenging problem even state-of-the-art methods, and errors are hard to be recover...

Stuttering is a speech disorder. The flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongation of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in communication. Stuttering is an interest subject of researchers from many various domains such as speech physiology & pathology, psychology, acoustic and signal analysis. Thus there are many researchers ha...

Accurate gender classification is useful in speech and speaker recognition as well as speech emotion classification, because a better performance has been reported when separate acoustic models are employed for males and females. Gender classification is also apparent in face recognition, video summarization, human-robot interaction, etc. Although gender classification is rather mature in appli...