Improving children's speech recognition by HMM interpolation with an adults' speech recognizer

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2781, Issue , 2003, Pages 600-607

  Steidl, Stefan ^a   Stemmer, Georg ^a   Hacker, Christian ^a   Nöth, Elmar ^a   Niemann, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INTERPOLATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; APPLICATION SCENARIO; EM ALGORITHMS; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; TRAINING DATA; WORD ACCURACIES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 22944452973     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45243-0_76     Document Type: Article

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