Language-independent and language-adaptive acoustic modeling for speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 31-51

  Schultz, Tanja ^a,b   Waibel, Alex ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GlobalPhone; Language portability; Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition; Multilingual acoustic models; Polyphone decision tree specialization (PDTS)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

LANGUAGE PROBABILITY; MULTILINGUAL ACOUSTIC MODELS; POLYPHONE DECISION TREE SPECIALIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035426931     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00094-7     Document Type: Article

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