Confidence based lattice segmentation and minimum bayes-risk decoding

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2569-2572

  Goel, Vaibhava ^a   Kumar, Shankar ^b   Byrne, William ^b  

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

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DECODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; HIGH CONFIDENCE; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITY DECODERS; MINIMUM BAYES RISK; SEARCH SPACES; SEGMENT RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; YIELD IMPROVEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84871615157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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