Support vector machines for segmental minimum Bayes risk decoding of continuous speech

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 13-18

  Venkataramani, Veera ^a   Chakrabartty, Shantanu ^a   Byrne, William ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DECODING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTOR SPACES;

BASIC FORMULATION; BINARY CLASSIFIERS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; MINIMUM BAYES RISK; SEARCH SPACES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVMS); SYSTEM COMBINATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33645775754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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