N-best: The Northern- and Southern-Dutch benchmark evaluation of speech Recognition technology

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1173-1176

  Kessens, Judith ^a   Van Leeuwen, David ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Benchmark test; Broadcast news; Conversational telephone speech; Evaluation; Large vocabulary speech recognition; Northern and Southern Dutch

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

BELGIUM; BENCHMARK EVALUATION; BENCHMARK TESTS; BROADCAST NEWS; CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; EVALUATION; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; NETHERLANDS; NORTHERN- AND SOUTHERN-DUTCH; SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 56149104238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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