Building a highly accurate mandarin speech recognizer

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 490-495

  Hwang, Mei Yuh ^a   Peng, Gang ^a   Wang, Wen ^b   Faria, Arlo ^c   Heidel, Aaron ^d   Ostendorf, Mari ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acoustic segmentation; Character error rates; Discriminative features; LM adaptation; Mandarin; Multi layer perceptrons; Out of vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SET THEORY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC MODELS (AM); ACOUSTIC SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); CHARACTER ERROR RATE (CER); COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; FEATURE TRANSFORMATIONS; LANGUAGE MODEL (LM) ADAPTATION; RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS; SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TRAINING DATA;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44849087457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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