Word set probability boosting for improved spontaneous dialog recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 438-450

  Sarukkai, Ramesh Rangarajan ^a,b   Ballard, Dana H ^b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b Kurzweil Applied Intelligence Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive boosting; Dialogue; Discriminative training; Language modeling; Speech recognition; Triggers; Word sets

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; SPONTANEOUS DIALOG RECOGNITION; TRIGGER AND ADAPTIVE BOOSTING (TAB) ALGORITHM; WORD SET PROBABILITY BOOSTING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031235174     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.622567     Document Type: Article

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