Robust syllable segmentation and its application to syllable-centric continuous speech recognition

Proceedings of 16th National Conference on Communications, NCC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Janakiraman, Rajesh ^a   Chaitanya, Kumar J ^a   Murthy, Hema A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

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Indexed keywords

ROBUST SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEARCH SPACES; SEGMENTATION INFORMATIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SYLLABLE SEGMENTATION; TEST SIGNAL; TRAINING AND TESTING; VOWEL ONSET POINT; WORD ERROR RATE;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; GROUP DELAY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77952210851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NCC.2010.5430189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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