A first speech recognition system for Mandarin-English code-switch conversational speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4889-4892

  Vu, Ngoc Thang ^a   Lyu, Dau Cheng ^b   Weiner, Jochen ^a   Telaar, Dominic ^a   Schlippe, Tim ^a   Blaicher, Fabian ^a   Chng, Eng Siong ^b   Schultz, Tanja ^a   Li, Haizhou ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

code switching; multilingual speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELING; BASELINE SYSTEMS; BHATTACHARYYA DISTANCE; CODE-SWITCHING; DECODING PROCESS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; LANGUAGE MODEL; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; MIXED ERRORS; MULTI-STREAM; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TEXT GENERATIONS;

BUILDING CODES; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84867602646     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6289015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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