Turkish speech corpora and recognition tools developed by porting SONIC: Towards multilingual speech recognition

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 580-593

  Salor, Özgül ^a   Pellom, Bryan L ^b   Ciloglu, Tolga ^a   Demirekler, Mübeccel ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Language porting; Phone recognizer; Phonetic aligner; Speech corpora; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROPHONES; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

LANGUAGE PORTING; PHONETIC ALIGNER; RECOGNITION TOOLS; SPEECH CORPORA;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34249932383     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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