Effective acoustic adaptation for a distant-talking interactive TV system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1709-1712

  Huang, Jing ^a   Epstein, Mark ^a   Matassoni, Marco ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic model adaptation; Dialog system; Distant talking speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ADAPTATION; ACOUSTIC MODEL; ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION; BASELINE MODELS; CLASSIFICATION ERROR RATE; DIALOG SYSTEMS; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; DISTANT-TALKING SPEECH RECOGNITION; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; ERROR RATE; INTERACTIVE TV; MAP ADAPTATION; WORD ERROR RATE;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867218669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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