Automatic pronunciation modelling for multiple non-native accents

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 123-128

  Goronzy, Silke ^a   Eisele, Kathrin ^a  

^a Sony Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

AUTOMATIC METHOD; BASELINE SYSTEMS; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; PRONUNCIATION MODELLING; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; STATE OF THE ART;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949259602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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