Reliable utterance segment recognition by integrating a grammar with statistical language constraints

Speech Communication

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 299-309

  Tsukada, Hajime ^a   Yamamoto, Hirofumi ^a   Takezawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Sagisaka, Yoshinori ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Context free grammar; Finite state automaton; Finite state transducer; Language model; Robust parsing; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FINITE AUTOMATA; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMAR; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE CONSTRAINT; UTTERANCE SEGMENT RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032288381     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(98)00062-4     Document Type: Article

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