Statistical modeling of phonological rules through linguistic hierarchies

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 204-216

  Seneff, Stephanie ^a   Wang, Chao ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialogue systems; Phonological modeling; Pronunciation modeling; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIALOUGE SYSTEMS; PHONOLOGICAL MODELING; PROBABILITY MODELS; PRONUNCIATION MODELING;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 19944366274     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.03.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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