you might want to look at:
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~osborne/msc-projects/saloman.ps.gz
this thesis looked at identifying phones (in TIMIT). jesper used freely
available svm code, so it should be possible to recreate his work.
Miles Osborne
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