Non-native English speech recognition using bilingual english lexicon and acoustic models

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 340-343

  Matsunaga, S ^a   Ogawa, A ^a   Yamaguchi, Y ^a   Imamura, A ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INTER-LINGUISTICS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0141591508     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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