Stochastic phonographic transduction for English

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-153

  Luk, R W P ^a   Damper, R I ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECODING; FORMAL LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

ENGLISH; LETTER PHONEME ALIGNMENT; LETTER TO PHONENE CONVERSION; STOCHASTIC PHONOGRAPHIC TRANSDUCTION; VITERBI DECODING; WORD GENERATION;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 0030124710     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.1996.0009     Document Type: Article

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