Maximum entropy confidence estimation for speech recognition

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  White, Christopher ^a   Droppo, Jasha ^b   Acero, Alex ^b   Odell, Julian ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum entropy methods; Speech processing; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS;

ERROR DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547538178     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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