Assessing text-to-phoneme mapping strategies in speaker independent isolated word recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 41, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 455-467

  Häkkinen, Juha ^a   Suontausta, Janne ^a   Riis, Søren ^b,c   Jensen, Kåre Jean ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Nokia Danmark AS   (Denmark)

^c OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Isolated word recognition; Neural networks; Speaker independent speech recognition; Text to phoneme mapping

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

WORD RECOGNITION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 18244423993     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(03)00015-3     Document Type: Article

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