Discriminative training for segmental minimum Bayes Risk decoding

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 136-139

  Doumpiotis, Vlasios ^a   Tsakalidis, Stavros ^a   Byrne, William ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION (MLE);

DECISION MAKING; DECODING; MARKOV PROCESSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0141814717     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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