Leveraging large amounts of loosely transcribed corporate videos for acoustic model training

2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 95-100

  Paulik, Matthias ^a   Panchapagesan, Panchi ^a  

^a CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic speech recognition; lightly supervised acoustic model training; LVCSR

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADDITIONAL COSTS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; COST SAVING; LIGHTLY SUPERVISED ACOUSTIC MODEL TRAINING; LVCSR; STATE OF THE ART; TRAINING PROCESS; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 84858951500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2011.6163912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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