A grapheme-based method for automatic alignment of speech and text data

2012 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 286-290

  Stan, Adriana ^a   Bell, Peter ^b   King, Simon ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

grapheme based models; imperfect transcripts; speech alignment; word networks

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; IMPERFECT TRANSCRIPTS; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTS; TEXT DATA; USER INTERVENTION; WORD ACCURACIES; WORD NETWORKS;

ALIGNMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRANSCRIPTION;

SPEECH;

EID: 84874277901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2012.6424237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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