Multilinguality in speech and spoken language systems

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1297-1313

  Waibel, Alex ^a   Geutner, Petra ^a   Tomokiyo, Laura Mayfield ^b   Schultz, Tanja ^a   Woszczyna, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic model combination; C STAR; Context dependent models; Croatian; Cross language bootstrapping, cross language transfer; Dynamic; English; Foreign accented speech; French; German; GlobalPhone; Hypothesis driven lexical adaptation (HDLA); Lexical adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012327341     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.880085     Document Type: Article

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