Weighted Viterbi decoding strategies for distributed speech recognition over IP networks

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1422-1434

  Cardenal López, Antonio ^a   García Mateo, Carmen ^a   Docío Fernández, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed speech recognition; Missing data; Weighted Viterbi decoding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; CORRELATION METHODS; DECODING; INTERPOLATION; VECTORS;

DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION; MISSING DATA; NEAREST FRAME REPETITION (NFR); WEIGHTED VITERBI DECODING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33750980095     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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