Acoustic modeling for spoken dialogue systems based on unsupervised utterance-based selective training

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1722-1725

  Cincarek, Tobias ^a   Toda, Tomoki ^a   Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic model; Speech recognition; Spoken dialogue system; Unsupervised training; Utterance based selection

Indexed keywords

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; CHILDREN SPEECH; LARGE AMOUNTS; SPEECH DATA; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; TASK ADAPTATION; UNSUPERVISED TRAINING; UTTERANCE-BASED SELECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547525048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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