State-dependent phonetic tied mixtures with pronunciation modeling for spontaneous speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 351-364

  Liu, Yi ^a   Fung, Pascale ^a  

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

Author keywords

Pronunciation modeling; Speech recogntion; State dependent phonetic tied mixtures

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BROADCASTING; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DECODING; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); PRONOUNCIATION MODELING; SPEAKING RATES; STATE-DEPENDENT PHONETIC TIED MIXTURES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 3042825296     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.828638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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