Unsupervised training of an HMM-based speech recognizer for topic classification

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1935-1938

  Gish, Herbert ^a   Siu, Man Hung ^a   Chan, Arthur ^a   Belfield, Bill ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HMM TRAINING; HUNGARIANS; PROCESSING STAGE; SEQUENCE SPACE; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEECH APPLICATIONS; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SWITCHBOARD CORPUS; TOKENIZER; TOPIC CLASSIFICATION; UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; UNSUPERVISED TRAINING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450158585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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