Cohorts based custom models for rapid speaker and dialect adaptation

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1261-1264

  Wu, Jian ^a   Chang, Eric ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADAPTATION SCHEME; CUSTOM MODELS; RELATIVE ERROR RATES; SPEAKER DEPENDENTS; SPEAKER INDEPENDENT MODEL; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; TRAINING SETS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0009577929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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