An automated linguistic knowledge-based cross-language transfer method for building acoustic models for a language without native training data

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1365-1368

  Liu, Chen ^a   Melnar, Lynette ^a  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CONFORMAL MAPPING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; METRIC SYSTEM; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACOUSTIC-DISTANCE MAPPING; PHONETIC-PHONOLOGICAL (CPP) METRIC; SOURCE LANGUAGES; WELL-TRAINED ACOUSTIC MODELS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745184223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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