Cross-language bootstrapping based on completely unsupervised training using multilingual A-stabil

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5000-5003

  Vu, Ngoc Thang ^a   Kraus, Franziska ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

multilingual A Stabil; rapid language adaptation of ASR; unsupervised training

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUDIO DATA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; CONFIDENCE SCORE; MULTILINGUAL A-STABIL; RAPID LANGUAGE ADAPTATION OF ASR; SYSTEM BUILDING; UNSUPERVISED TRAINING; WORD ERROR RATE;

LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TRANSCRIPTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80051617867     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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