On the use of a multilingual neural network front-end

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2711-2714

  Scanzio, Stefano ^a   Laface, Pietro ^a   Fissore, Luciano ^b   Gemello, Roberto ^b   Mana, Franco ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Loquendo   (Italy)

Author keywords

ANN; ANN adaptation; Multilingual training

Indexed keywords

ANN; ANN ADAPTATION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; MULTILINGUAL TRAINING; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; OBSERVATION VECTORS; SPECIFIC TASKS; SPEECH DATA; TARGET LANGUAGE;

SOFTWARE AGENTS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84867224965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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