From modern standard Arabic to Levantine ASR: Leveraging GALE for dialects

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 266-271

  Soltau, Hagen ^a   Mangu, Lidia ^a   Biadsy, Fadi ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY STRUCTURES; DARPA PROGRAM; DATA SETS; ERROR RATE; LANGUAGE MODEL; MODERN STANDARDS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TEXT DATA; WORD ERROR RATE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84858964807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2011.6163942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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