State-transition interpolation and map adaptation for HMM-based dysarthric speech recognition

Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2010 at the 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 72-79

  Sharma, Harsh Vardhan ^a   Hasegawa Johnson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADAPTED SYSTEMS; DYSARTHRIA; HMM-BASED; IN-BUILDINGS; MAP ADAPTATION; SPEAKER DEPENDENTS; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; STATE TRANSITIONS; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; WORD ERROR RATE;

INTERPOLATION;

EID: 84866119781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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