Towards language independent acoustic modeling

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1029-1032

  Byrne, W ^a   Beyerlein, P ^b   Huerta, J M ^c   Khudanpur, S ^a   Marthi, B ^d   Morgan, J ^e   Peterek, N ^f   Picone, J ^g   Vergyri, D ^a   Wang, T ^h  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Dept Foreign Languages   (United States)

^f CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; ACOUSTICS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; AUTOMATIC METHOD; DISCRIMINATIVE MODEL COMBINATIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASED; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TARGET LANGUAGE;

MODELING LANGUAGES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISCRIMINATIVE MODEL COMBINATION; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT ACOUSTIC MODELING; PHONE MAPPINGS; SOURCE LANGUAGES;

EID: 0033690885     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.859138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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