Google's cross-dialect Arabic voice search

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4441-4444

  Biadsy, Fadi ^a   Moreno, Pedro J ^a   Jansche, Martin ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Speech Recognition; Voice Search

Indexed keywords

ARABIC; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; LEBANON; SAUDI ARABIA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VOICE CONTROL; WORD ERROR RATE;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867602826     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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