Rapid building of an ASR system for under-resourced languages based on multilingual unsupervised training

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3145-3148

  Vu, Ngoc Thang ^a   Kraus, Franziska ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multilingual A Stabil; Rapid language adaptation of ASR; Unsupervised training

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUDIO DATA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; CONFIDENCE SCORE; ERROR RATE; MULTILINGUAL A-STABIL; RAPID LANGUAGE ADAPTATION OF ASR; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; SYSTEM BUILDING; TARGET LANGUAGE; UNSUPERVISED TRAINING;

LINGUISTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865764419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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