Phone-to-word decoding through statistical machine translation and complementary system combination

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 519-524

  Falavigna, D ^a   Gerosa, M ^a   Gretter, R ^a   Giuliani, D ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

ASR system combination; Phone to word transducer; Word graph rescoring

Indexed keywords

ASR SYSTEM COMBINATION; COMPLEMENTARY SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PLENARY SESSIONS; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPEECH SEGMENTS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYSTEM COMBINATION; WORD GRAPHS;

COUPLINGS; DECODING; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; REMELTING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TELEPHONE CIRCUITS; TELEPHONE SETS; TRANSDUCERS;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949446929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2009.5373281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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