Unsupervised Arabic dialect adaptation with self-training

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 541-544

  Novotney, Scott ^a   Schwartz, Rich ^a   Khudanpur, Sanjeev ^b  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic ASR; Domain adaptation; Self training

Indexed keywords

ARABIC ASR; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; BROADCAST NEWS; CROSS-DOMAIN; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES; MODERN STANDARDS; SELF-TRAINING; SUITABLE SOLUTIONS; TRAINING DATA;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 84865798033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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