Speech recognition for multiple non-native accent groups with speaker-group-dependent acoustic models

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1509-1512

  Cincarek, Tobias ^a,b   Gruhn, Rainer ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECODING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC CLUSTERING; BASELINE MODELS; KNOWLEDGE BASED; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; PARALLEL DECODING; SPEAKER DEPENDENTS; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79551471715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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