Joint discriminative front end and back end training for improved speech recognition accuracy

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Droppo, Jasha ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; BACK END ACOUSTIC MODELS; ENGLISH DIGIT RECOGNITION; MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION (MMI);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947702149     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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