Different confidence measures for word verification in speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-94

  Benitez M C ^a   Rubio, A ^a   Garcia P ^a   De La Torre, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; WORD PROCESSING;

CONFIDENCE MEASURES; FALSE ALARM RATE; KEY-WORD SPOTTING (KWS); KEY-WORD VERIFICATION; NON-PARAMETRIC CLASSIFIERS; PHONE MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0342955657     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00025-X     Document Type: Article

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