Design of a Linguistic Statistical Decoder for the Recognition of Continuous Speech

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1975, Pages 250-256

  Jelinek, Frederick ^a   Bahl, Lalit R ^a,b   Mercer, Robert L ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES, SYMBOLIC - DECODING; INFORMATION SCIENCE - LANGUAGE TRANSLATION AND LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - GRAPH THEORY;

SPEECH;

INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0016507833     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.1975.1055384     Document Type: Article

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