Bayes risk approximations using time overlap with an application to system combination

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1191-1194

  Hoffmeister, Björn ^a   Schlüter, Ralf ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confusion network; Discriminative training; Minimum bayes risk; Speech recognition; System combination

Indexed keywords

BAYES RISK; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; ERROR RATE; MINIMUM BAYES RISK; NETWORK ALGORITHMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; DECODING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450183081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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