Progress on mandarin conversational telephone speech recognition

2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-4

  Hwang, Mei Yuh ^e   Lei, Xin ^e   Ng, Tim ^e   Bulyko, Ivan ^e   Ostendorf, Mari ^a   Stolcke, Andreas ^e   Wang, Wen ^e   Zheng, Jing ^e   Gadde, Venkata Ramona Rao ^e   Graciarena, Martin ^b   Siu, Man Hung ^c   Huang, Yan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); CHARACTER ERROR RATE (CER); CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH RECOGNITION; MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION ESTIMATION (MMIE);

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARDS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

SPEECH;

EID: 21444437520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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