Joint-sequence models for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 434-451

  Bisani, Maximilian ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grapheme to phoneme; Joint sequence model; Letter to sound; Phonemic transcription; Pronunciation modeling

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

GRAPHEME TO PHONEME; JOINT SEQUENCE MODELS; LETTER TO SOUND; PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRONUNCIATION MODELING; STRINGENT PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORKS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 41049105254     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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