Wiktionary as a source for automatic pronunciation extraction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2290-2293

  Schlippe, Tim ^a   Ochs, Sebastian ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Crowdsourcing; Pronunciation dictionary; Rapid language adaptation

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; RAPID LANGUAGE ADAPTATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM; SYSTEMS EVALUATIONS; WORD ERROR RATE REDUCTIONS; BUILDING PROCESS; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; SYSTEM BUILDING; WORD LISTS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79959851710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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