Frame based system combination and a comparison with weighted ROVER and CNC

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 537-540

  Hoffmeister, Björn ^a   Klein, Tobias ^a   Schlüter, Ralf ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Speech recognition; System combination; Word posteriors

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS;

CONFUSION NETWORKS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ERROR COST FUNCTION; EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT; FRAME-BASED SYSTEMS; MINIMUM BAYES RISK; SYSTEM COMBINATION; WORD POSTERIORS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44849087216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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