Unsupervised lattice-based acoustic model adaptation for speaker-dependent conversational telephone speech transcription

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1611-1614

  Thambiratnam, K ^a   Seide, F ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Conversational speech recognition; Unsupervised acoustic model adaptation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION; ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; LATTICE SYSTEM; OPTIMAL ADAPTATION; THRESHOLDING; TRAINING DATA;

ACOUSTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; TRANSCRIPTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450183516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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