Statistical transformation of language and pronunciation models for spontaneous speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1539-1549

  Akita, Yuya ^a   Kawahara, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition (ASR); Language model (LM); Pronunciation model; Spontaneous speech; Statistical transformation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; LANGUAGE MODEL; PRONUNCIATION MODEL; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; STATISTICAL TRANSFORMATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; STATISTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77955729683     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2037400     Document Type: Article

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