A study on multilingual acoustic modeling for large vocabulary ASR

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4333-4336

  Lin, Hui ^a   Deng, Li ^b   Yu, Dong ^b   Gong, Yi Fan ^b   Acero, Alex ^b   Lee, Chin Hui ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Language adaptation; Multilingualism; Universal phone models

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ACOUSTIC MODELING; ADAPTIVE MODELS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; COMPARISON RESULT; CROSS-LINGUAL; KEY ISSUES; LANGUAGE ADAPTATION; LARGE VOCABULARY; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETIC PROPERTIES; SPEECH DATA; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; UNIVERSAL PHONE MODELS;

ACOUSTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; REMELTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70349220094     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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