Progress in the BBN 2007 mandarin speech to text system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1537-1540

  Ng, Tim ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a   Nguyen, Kham ^b   Nguyen, Long ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mandarin; Pitch; Speech recognition; System combination

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CHARACTER SETS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERROR ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MANDARIN; PITCH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

SPEECH;

EID: 51449120443     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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