Improving the performance of a Dutch CSR by modeling within-word and cross-word pronunciation variation

Speech Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 193-207

  Kessens, Judith M ^a   Wester, Mirjam ^a   Strik, Helmer ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION (CSR) SYSTEMS; PRONUNCIATION MODELS; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033318198     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00048-5     Document Type: Article

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