Comparing automatic rich transcription for Portuguese, Spanish and English broadcast news

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 540-545

  Batista, Fernando ^a,b   Trancoso, Isabel ^a,c   Mamede, Nuno J ^a,c  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADCAST NEWS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENCE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELING; PUNCTUATION MARKS; TWO CLASSIFICATION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77949404775     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2009.5373371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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