Learning Name Pronunciations in Automatic Speech Recognition Systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 233-240

  Beaufays, Françoise ^a   Sankar, Ananth ^a   Williams, Shaun ^a   Weintraub, Mitch ^a  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRONUNCIATION ENGINES; SPEECH WAVEFORMS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; TELEPHONE SETS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0344666751     PISSN: 10636730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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