Discriminative utterance verification for connected digits recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 266-277

  Rahim, Mazin G ^a   Lee, Chin Hui ^a   Juang, Biing Hwang ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

NONVOCABULARY WORD STRINGS; UTTERANCE VERIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031140048     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.568733     Document Type: Article

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