Improved Phoneme-History-Dependent Search Method for Large-Vocabulary Continuous-Speech Recognition

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1059-1067

  Hori, Takaaki ^a,b   Noda, Yoshiaki ^a   Matsunaga, Shoichi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multi pass search; Phoneme history dependent search; Search algorithm; Speech recognition; Word graph

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECODING; SERVERS;

SEARCH METHODS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0142007749     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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