Unsupervised, language-independent grapheme-to-phoneme conversion by latent analogy

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 140-152

  Bellegarda, Jerome R ^a  

^a APPLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Letter to sound mapping; Name transcription; Pronunciation modeling

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FEEDBACK; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH RECOGNITION;

INDUCTIVE LEARNING; LETTER-TO-SOUND MAPPING; NAME TRANSCRIPTION; PRONUNCIATION MODELLING;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 19944409831     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.03.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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