Automatic speech recognition performance on a voicemail transcription task

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 433-441

  Padmanabhan, Mukund ^a   Saon, George ^b   Huang, Jing ^b   Kingsbury, Brian ^b   Mangu, Lidia ^b  

^a Rennaisance Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Large vocabulary conversational speech recognition; Voicemail recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOICEMAIL RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036816725     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2002.804303     Document Type: Article

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