Cross-dialectal data sharing for acoustic modeling in Arabic speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-51

  Kirchhoff, Katrin ^a   Vergyri, Dimitra ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Arabic; Dialectal variation; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BIT ERROR RATE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC MODELING; ARABIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DATA SHARING; DIALECTAL VARIATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 17444389667     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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