Tagging syllable boundaries with joint n-gram models

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 49-52

  Schmid, Helmut ^a   Möbius, Bernd ^a   Weidenkaff, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

German; Joint n gram models; Syllabification

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS;

% REDUCTIONS; CROSS VALIDATION; ERROR RATE; GERMAN; JOINT N-GRAM MODEL; N-GRAM MODELING; N-GRAM MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SYLLABIFICATION; SYLLABLE BOUNDARIES;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 56149127120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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