Reliability-weighted acoustic model adaptation using crowd sourced transcriptions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3045-3048

  Audhkhasi, Kartik ^a   Georgiou, Panayiotis G ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd sourcing; Evaluator reliability; Speech transcription

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION; CONVEX COMBINATIONS; CROWD SOURCING; RECOGNIZER OUTPUT VOTING ERROR REDUCTIONS; SENTENCE ERRORS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS; WEIGHTED FUSION; WORD ERROR RATE; WORD FREQUENCIES;

DATA MINING; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 84865764400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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