Improving command and control speech recognition on mobile devices: Using predictive user models for language modeling

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 93-117

  Paek, Tim ^a   Chickering, David Maxwell ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Command and control; Language modeling; Predictive user models; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES;

COMMAND AND CONTROL; ERROR RATES; LANGUAGE MODELING; PREDICTIVE USER MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33847318282     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-006-9021-6     Document Type: Article

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