Performance analysis for lattice-based speech indexing approaches using words and subword units

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1562-1574

  Pan, Yi Cheng ^a,b   Lee, Lin Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MEDIATEK INC   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Position specific posterior lattice (PSPL); Spoken document indexing; Spoken document retrieval (SDR); Subword based PSPL

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BASIC PRINCIPLES; COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; DISK SPACE; MANDARIN CHINESE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POSTERIOR LATTICE; RECOGNITION ERROR; SPEECH INDEXING; SPOKEN DOCUMENT; SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; SUBWORD UNITS; SUBWORDS;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ERROR DETECTION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); SPEECH RECOGNITION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77955759248     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2037404     Document Type: Article

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