Automatic speech recognition of multiple accented English data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1652-1655

  Vergyri, Dimitra ^a   Lamel, Lori ^b   Gauvain, Jean Luc ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Accent adaptation; Accented speech recognition

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACCENT ADAPTATION; ACOUSTIC MODEL TRAININGS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BASELINE SYSTEMS; BROADCAST NEWS; GREAT BRITAIN; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ACCENTED SPEECH; ACCENTED SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUSTRALIA; GEOGRAPHICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959831703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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