Pronunciation modeling for ASR - Knowledge-based and data-derived methods

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-85

  Wester, Mirjam ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; DECISION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; FINITE STATE GRAMMARS; PHONE RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038141324     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2308(02)00030-X     Document Type: Article

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