Progress in the CU-HTK broadcast news transcription system

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1513-1525

  Gales, Mark J F ^a,b   Kim, Do Yeong ^c   Woodland, Philip C ^a,b   Chan, Ho Yin ^b   Mrva, David ^b   Sinha, Rohit ^b   Tranter, Sue E ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c VoiceSignal   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Broadcast news (BN) transcription; Diarization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRAINING DATA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BROADCAST NEWS (BN) TRANSCRIPTION; DIARIZATION;

DATA REDUCTION; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BROADCASTING;

EID: 34047266379     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.878264     Document Type: Article

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