Online discriminative training for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1303-1306

  Jiampojamarn, Sittichai ^a   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discriminative training; Grapheme to phoneme conversion; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; LEARNING MODELS; NONLOCAL; PREDICTION MODEL; SEQUENCE MODELING;

ALIGNMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450186703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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