Pronunciation variants description using recognition error modeling with phonetic derivation hypotheses

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Nakajima, Hideharu ^a   Sagisaka, Yoshinori ^a   Yamamoto, Hirofumi ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corpus based approach; Multiple pronunciation generation; Phonological knowledge; Speech variants

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH RECOGNITION; CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; MULTIPLE PRONUNCIATION GENERATION; PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS; PHONOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; PRONUNCIATION VARIANTS; PRONUNCIATION VARIATION; RECOGNITION ERROR;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84871615734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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