Uncertainty in training large vocabulary speech recognizers

2007 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2007, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 484-489

  Subramanya, Amarnag ^a   Bartels, Chris ^a   Bilmes, Jeff ^a   Nguyen, Patrick ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

GRAPHICAL MODEL; LARGE VOCABULARY; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; SEQUENCE LABELING; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; TRAINING SCHEMES; TRAINING SETS; VIRTUAL EVIDENCES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44849086817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/asru.2007.4430160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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