Joint processing and discriminative training for letter-to-phoneme conversion

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 905-913

  Jiampojamarn, Sittichai ^a   Cherry, Colin ^b   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; JOINT PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK; SEQUENCE MODELING; SYSTEM OUTPUT; TEXT TO SPEECH;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79952264781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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