A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Continuous Speech Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn PAMI-5, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 179-190

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

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

Author keywords

Markov models; maximum likelihood; parameter estimation; speech recognition; statistical models

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

SPEECH;

EID: 0020719320     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.1983.4767370     Document Type: Article

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