Language modeling for voice search: A machine translation approach

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4913-4916

  Li, Xiao ^a   Ju, Yun Cheng ^a   Zweig, Geoffrey ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Directory assistance; Language modeling; Machine translation; Voice search

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE; LANGUAGE MODELING; MACHINE TRANSLATION; VOICE SEARCH;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 51449108391     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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