Lexical and phonetic modeling for Arabic automatic speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 712-715

  Nguyen, Long ^a   Ng, Tim ^a   Nguyen, Kham ^b   Zbib, Rabih ^c   Makhoul, John ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic speech recognition; Lexical unit; Morphological decomposition; Phonetic unit; System combination

Indexed keywords

ARABIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; LEXICAL UNIT; PHONETIC UNITS; ROVER SYSTEMS; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; WORD-BASED SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTICS; REMELTING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450192544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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