Investigations on error minimizing training criteria for discriminative training in automatic speech recognition

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2133-2136

  Macherey, Wolfgang ^a   Haferkamp, Lars ^a   Schlüter, Ralf ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ERROR COMPENSATION; GAIN CONTROL; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING CRITERIA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (ML); MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION (MMI);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745208000     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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