Integrating imperfect transcripts into speech recognition systems for building high-quality corpora

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-89

  Lecouteux, Benjamin ^a   Linarés, Georges ^b   Oger, Stanislas ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic model training; Speech processing; Text to speech alignment

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; CORRECT ERROR; DECODING STRATEGY; HIGH QUALITY; LOW-COST SOLUTION; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH SIGNALS; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; TEXT TO SPEECH; TRAINING CORPUS;

ALIGNMENT; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); SOFTWARE AGENTS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80055054639     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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