A new verification-based fast-match for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 546-553

  Afify, Mohamed ^a   Liu, Feng ^b   Jiang, Hui ^c   Siohan, Olivier ^d  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast match; Large vocabulary speech recognition; Search algorithms; Utterance verification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH PROCESSING;

FAST-MATCH; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; UTTERANCE VERIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 22544450843     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.845809     Document Type: Article

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