Automatic transcription of conversational telephone speech

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1173-1185

  Hain, Thomas ^a,b,c   Woodland, Philip C ^a,c   Evermann, Gunnar ^a,c,d   Gales, Mark J F ^a,c   Liu, Xunying ^a,c,d,e   Moore, Gareth L ^a,c,f   Povey, Dan ^a,c   Wang, Lan ^a,c,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^g BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Large vocabulary conversational speech recognition; Telephone speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERPOLATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

LARGE VOCUBLARY CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH RECOGNITION; LINEAR ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE SPEECH; TELEPHONE SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 27744599401     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.852999     Document Type: Article

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