Implicit modelling of pronunciation variation in automatic speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-188

  Hain, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic modelling; Automatic speech recognition; Conversational speech recognition; Hidden markov models; Parameter tying; Phonetic decision trees; Pronunciation dictionaries; Pronunciation modelling; Single pronunciations; State clustering

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ACOUSTIC MODELLING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PARAMMETER TYPING; PHONETIC DECISION TREES; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; PRONUNCIATION MODELLING; SINGLE PRONUNCIATIONS; STATE CLUSTERING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 19944415893     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.03.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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