Multilingual phone models for vocabulary-independent speech recognition tasks

Speech Communication

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 21-30

  Köhler, Joachim ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Cross language transfer; IPA; Multilingual phone modeling; Multilinguality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CROSS LANGUAGE TRANSFER; MULTILINGUAL PHONE MODELING; MULTILINGUALITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035426911     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00093-5     Document Type: Article

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