Semi-automatic acoustic model generation from large unsynchronized audio and text chunks

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1681-1684

  Alessandrini, Michele ^a   Biagetti, Giorgio ^a   Curzi, Alessandro ^a   Turchetti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic model; Automatic segmentation; Model bootstrapping; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; LANGUAGE MODEL; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; MODEL GENERATOR; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SPECIALIZED TRAINING; SPEECH CORPORA; STANDARD MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84865712609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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