Advances in children’s speech recognition within an interactive literacy tutor

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 25-28

  Hagen, Andreas ^a   Pellom, Bryan ^a   van Vuuren, Sarel ^a   Cole, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

% REDUCTIONS; ACOUSTIC AND LANGUAGE MODELS; DIGITAL BOOKS; HISTORY INFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SPEAKER ADAPTIVE TRAININGS; VOCAL-TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATIONS; WORD ERROR RATE;

REAL TIME CONTROL;

EID: 79953282856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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