Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: Application to vietnamese language

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1471-1482

  Le, Viet Bac ^a   Besacier, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Crosslingual acoustic modeling; Grapheme based acoustic modeling; Lattice decomposition and combination; Speech recognition; Under resourced languages

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ACOUSTIC MODELING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BASELINE METHODS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONTEXT INDEPENDENT; CROSS-LINGUAL; CROSSLINGUAL ACOUSTIC MODELING; ERROR RATE REDUCTION; GRAPHEME-BASED ACOUSTIC MODELING; LATTICE DECOMPOSITION AND COMBINATION; MONOLINGUAL BASELINE; PHONETIC DICTIONARY; SPEECH DATA; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELING; TARGET LANGUAGE; UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FILTER BANKS; QUERY LANGUAGES; REMELTING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 69249139569     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2021723     Document Type: Article

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