Syllable modeling in continuous speech recognition for Tamil language

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-57

  Thangarajan, R ^a   Natarajan, A M ^b   Selvam, M ^a  

^a KONGU ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b BANNARI AMMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Context dependent; Context independent; Continuous speech recognition; Hidden Markov model; Syllable; Tamil language; Triphone

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONTEXT INDEPENDENT; GAINING MOMENTUM; MONOPHONES; OUT OF VOCABULARY WORDS; TAMIL LANGUAGE; TRIPHONES; WORD ERROR RATE; WORD MODELS;

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 72149134486     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: 15728110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10772-009-9058-0     Document Type: Article

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