Automatic speech recognition for an under-resourced language - Amharic

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 973-976

  Abate, Solomon Teferra ^a   Menzel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amharic; Speech recognition; Syllable; Under resourced language

Indexed keywords

AMHARIC; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SYLLABLE; TRIPHONES; UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 56149096849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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