Using morphological information for robust language modeling in Czech ASR system

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 840-847

  Ircing, Pavel ^a   Psutka, Josef V ^a   Fsutka, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Language models; Speech recognition and synthesis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTIONS; CLASS-BASED; CZECH LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE MODELING; LANGUAGE MODELS; MORPHOLOGICAL INFORMATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL TAGGING; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; RECOGNITION ACCURACIES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FACE RECOGNITION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 65249161821     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2014217     Document Type: Article

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