Effect of foreign accent on speech recognition in the NATO N-4 corpus

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1505-1508

  Lawson, Aaron D ^a   Harris, David M ^b   Grieco, John J ^c  

^a Research Associates for Defense Conversion   (United States)

^b ACS Defense Inc   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

FOREIGN ACCENTS; NON-NATIVE; PHONETIC DICTIONARY; VOCABULARY RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34548727590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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