Speaking in shorthand - a syllable-centric perspective for understanding pronunciation variation

Speech Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-176

  Greenberg, Steven ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR) SYSTEMS; PRONUNCIATION MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033357399     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00050-3     Document Type: Article

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