Cross-language phone recognition when the target language phoneme inventory is not known

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3165-3168

  Kempton, Timothy ^a   Moore, Roger K ^a   Hain, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross language speech recognition; Forced alignment; Under resourced languages; Universal phone recognition

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASURE; PHONE RECOGNITION; TARGET LANGUAGE;

ALIGNMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84865783700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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