Efficient harvesting of Internet audio for resource-scarce ASR

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3153-3156

  Davel, Marelie H ^b   Van Heerden, Charl ^a,b   Kleynhans, Neil ^a,b   Barnard, Etienne ^b  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Garbage modeling; Speech recognition; Under resourced languages

Indexed keywords

AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIAL; GARBAGE MODEL; HIGH QUALITY; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; TECHNIQUES USED;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRANSCRIPTION;

INTERNET;

EID: 84865744412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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