Statistical and hybrid methods for speech recognition in Romanian

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 259-268

  Valsan, Zica ^a   Gavat, Inge ^a   Sabac, Bogdan ^a   Cula, Oana ^b   Grigore, Ovidiu ^a   Militaru, Diana ^a   Dumitru, Octavian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b CAIP Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy similarity measure; Hybrid recognizers; Probabilistic similarity measure; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FUZZY STATISTICAL HYBRID; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR; POSTERIORI PROBABILITY ESTIMATOR;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036752598     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020249008539     Document Type: Article

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