Comparison of performance of enhanced morpheme-based language model with different word-based language models for improving the performance of Tamil speech recognition system

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Saraswathi, S ^a   Geetha, T V ^b  

^a PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Language model; Morphemes; Perplexity; Word error rate and speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LANGUAGE MODELS; MORPHEMES; PERPLEXITY; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 36448970944     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1290002.1290003     Document Type: Article

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