Speech translation for low-resource languages: The case of Pashto

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2273-2276

  Kathol, Andreas ^a   Precoda, Kristin ^a   Vergyri, Dimitra ^a   Wang, Wen ^a   Riehemann, Susanne ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CORPUS CREATION; LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGES; SPEECH TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33745220522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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