Speech recognition for resource deficient languages using frugal speech corpus

2012 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 750-755

  Imran, Ahmed ^a   Sunil, Kopparapu ^a  

^a TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

acoustic model; resource deficient; speech corpus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ONLINE SPEECH; RESOURCE DEFICIENT; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINE;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH;

EID: 84869454077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSPCC.2012.6335664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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