Multi-Scale Spoken Document Retrieval for Cantonese Broadcast News

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 203-219

  Lo, Wai Kit ^a,b   Meng, Helen M ^a   Ching, P C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cantonese speech recognition; Multi scale fusion; Speech retrieval

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CANTONESE SPEECH RECOGNITION; MULTI-SCALE FUSION; SPEECH RETRIEVAL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 1242349970     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:ijst.0000017020.53797.a0     Document Type: Article

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