Investigation on Mandarin broadcast news speech recognition

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1233-1236

  Hwang, Mei Yuh ^a   Lei, Xin ^a   Wang, Wen ^b   Shinozaki, Takahiro ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Character error rate; Mandarin speech recogntion; Pitch smoothing; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER ERROR RATES; CHINESE CHARACTERS; PITCH SMOOTHING; POINTWISE MUTUAL INFORMATION; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPEECH RECOGNTION; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; WORD SEGMENTATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547543570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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