Improved speech recognition using acoustic and lexical correlates of pitch accent in A N-best rescoring framework

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ananthakrishnan, Sankaranarayanan ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Prosody; Re ranking N best lists; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

PROSODY; RE-RANKING N-BEST LISTS; SYNTACTIC ORGANIZATION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ERROR DETECTION; INFORMATION USE; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547525606     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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