Speech understanding and speech translation by maximum a-posteriori semantic decoding

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 373-384

  Muller J ^a   Stahl, H ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b ROHDE AND SCHWARZ GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); SEMANTIC DECODING; SPEECH TRANSLATION; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0343526769     PISSN: 09541810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-1810(99)00010-2     Document Type: Article

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