Two protocols comparing human and machine phonetic recognition performance in conversational speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1630-1633

  Shen, Wade ^a   Olive, Joseph ^b   Jones, Douglas ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Phonetic discrimination; Phonetic recognition; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH; CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN SUBJECTS; LANGUAGE MODEL; PHONETIC DISCRIMINATION; PHONETIC RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXPERIMENTS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867215557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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