IMPROVED SURNAME PRONUNCIATIONS USING DECISION TREES

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Ngan, Julie ^a   Ganapathiraju, Aravind ^a   Picone, Joseph ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

% REDUCTIONS; BINARY DECISION TREES; DECISION TREE METHOD; ERROR RATE; INFORMATION GAIN RATIO; LETTER TO SOUND CONVERSION; NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES; PROPER NOUNS; SPLITTINGS;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 0037959141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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