Arabic broadcast news transcription system

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 183-195

  Alghamdi, Mansour ^a   Elshafei, Moustafa ^a,b   Al Muhtaseb, Husni ^a,b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabic natural language; Arabic speech corpus; Arabic speech recognition; HMM; News transcription; Phonetic dictionary; Sphinx training

Indexed keywords

ARABIC NATURAL LANGUAGE; ARABIC SPEECH CORPUS; ARABIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; HMM; NEWS TRANSCRIPTION; PHONETIC DICTIONARY; SPHINX TRAINING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67349266832     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: 15728110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10772-009-9026-8     Document Type: Article

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