A BI-DIRECTIONAL MODEL OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1991

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 801-804

  Parfitt, S H ^a   Sharman, R A ^a  

^a IBM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECODING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ALIGNMENT PROBLEMS; BI-DIRECTIONAL; ENCRYPTED MESSAGES; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; ORTHOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS; SIMPLE++; TRAINING ALGORITHMS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 0039330827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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