An amharic speech corpus for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1601-1604

  Abate, Solomon Teferra ^a   Menzel, Wolfgang ^a   Tafila, Bairu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMITIC LANGUAGE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TEXT PROCESSING; WEBSITES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745211440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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