Automatic recognition and understanding of spoken language - A first step toward natural human-machine communication

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1142-1165

  Juang, Biing Hwang ^a,c   Furui, Sadaoki ^b  

^a Lucent Technologics Inc   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Acoustic phonetics; Articulation; Automatic recognition and understanding; Bayes risk; Cepsiral distance; Continuous speech recognition; Detection based approach; Dialogue systems; Discriminative training; Dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000763574     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.880077     Document Type: Article

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