Stochastic pronunciation modelling from hand-labelled phonetic corpora

Speech Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 209-224

  Riley, Michael ^a   Byrne, William ^b   Finke, Michael ^c   Khudanpur, Sanjeev ^b   Ljolje, Andrej ^a   McDonough, John ^b   Nock, Harriet ^d   Saraclar, Murat ^c   Wooters, Charles ^e   Zavaliagkos, George ^f  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^f BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HAND LABELED PHONETIC CORPORA; STOCHASTIC PRONUNCIATION MODELLING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033353288     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00037-0     Document Type: Article

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