Predicting unseen triphones with senones

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 412-419

  Hwang, Mei Yuh ^a,b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; PERFORMANCE; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

DECISION TREE; SENONES; SHARED DISTRIBUTION MODEL; TRIPHONES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030289863     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.544526     Document Type: Article

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