Cross-lingual acoustic modeling for dialectal Arabic speech recognition

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 873-876

  Elmahdy, Mohamed ^a,b   Gruhn, Rainer ^c   Minker, Wolfgang ^a   Abdennadher, Slim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Faculty of Media Engineering and Technology   (Egypt)

^c SVOX AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Adaptation; Cross lingual; Dialectal Arabic; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; ACOUSTIC MODELING;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADAPTATION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; COLLOQUIAL ARABICS; CROSS-LINGUAL; DIALECTAL ARABICS; MODEL ADAPTATION; MODERN STANDARDS; ACOUSTICS MODEL; ARABIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; EGYPTIANS; SPEECH RESOURCES; STANDARD ARABICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959813716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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