Data-driven lexicon expansion for mandarin broadcast news and conversation speech recognition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4329-4332

  Lei, Xin ^a   Wang, Wen ^a   Stolcke, Andreas ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Mandarin speech recognition; Pronunciation learning; Vocabulary expansion

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT STATISTICS; BROADCAST NEWS; DATA-DRIVEN; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; MANDARIN SPEECH RECOGNITION; N-GRAM STATISTICS; PRONUNCIATION LEARNING; PRONUNCIATION VARIANTS; TRAINING DATA; VOCABULARY EXPANSION;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70349215697     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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