Natural speaker-independent Arabic speech recognition system based on Hidden Markov Models using Sphinx tools

International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Abushariah, Mohammad A M ^a,b   Ainon, Raja N ^a   Zainuddin, Roziati ^a   Elshafei, Moustafa ^c   Khalifa, Othman O ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^c KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^d INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Arabic automatic speech recognition; Hidden Markov Models; Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients; Speech corpus; Sphinx tools

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELING; ARABIC SPEECH; ARABIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CAMBRIDGE; CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; FEATURE VECTORS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION; LANGUAGE MODEL; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH CORPUS; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPHINX TOOLS; STATE DISTRIBUTIONS; SYSTEM USE; WORD ERROR RATE; WORD RECOGNITION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 77957798876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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