Robust decision tree state tying for continuous speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 555-556

  Reichl, Wolfgang ^a   Wu, Chou ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Decision tree state tying; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; DATA STRUCTURES; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC MODELING; DATA SEPARATION; DECISION TREE STATE TYING; TAGGING SCHEME;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034273299     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.861375     Document Type: Article

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