Techniques for rapid and robust topic identification of conversational telephone speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1471-1474

  Wintrode, Jonathan ^a   Kulp, Scott ^b  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error trade offs; Speech recognition; TF IDF; Topic identification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONFIDENCE INFORMATION; CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; FEATURE WEIGHTING; RECOGNITION ERROR; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TF-IDF; TOPIC IDENTIFICATION;

CLASSIFIERS; ERROR DETECTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450177185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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