Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of an inflected language using stems and endings

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 437-452

  Rotovnik, Tomaž ^a   Maučec, Mirjam Sepesy ^a   Kačič, Zdravko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Ending; Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition; Search algorithm; Stem; Sub word modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INFLECTIONAL LANGUAGES; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SUB WORD MODELING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34250004339     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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