A speaker independent continuous speech recognizer for Amharic

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3349-3352

  Seid, Hussien ^a   Gambäck, Björn ^b  

^a ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONTEXT DEPENDENT PHONE; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SENTENCE RECOGNITION RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745199376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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