Comparing parameter tying methods for multilingual acoustic modelling

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2729-2732

  Harju, Mikko ^a   Salmela, Petri ^a   Leppänen, Jussi ^a   Viikki, Olli ^b   Saarinen, Jukka ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACOUSTIC MODELLING; AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; CONTINUOUS DENSITY HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; DISSIMILARITY MEASURES; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; WORD ACCURACIES; WORD RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 50949107658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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