Language and variety verification on broadcast news for Portuguese

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 965-979

  Rouas, Jean Luc ^a,b   Trancoso, Isabel ^a   Viana, Céu ^c   Abreu, Mónica ^a  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport Development and Networks   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Language verification; Portuguese varieties

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; EQUAL ERROR RATE; IDENTIFICATION RATES; PORTUGUESE VARIETIES; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; TWO STAGE SYSTEM; VARIETY IDENTIFICATION; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 54149090220     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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