A hindi speech recognizer for an agricultural video search application

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bali, Kalika ^a   Sitaram, Sunayana ^b   Cuendet, Sebastien ^c   Medhi, Indrani ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hindi; Less resource language; Mobile application; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; HINDI; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; LESS-RESOURCE LANGUAGE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; SPEECH APPLICATIONS; TEXT-BASED INTERFACES; VOICE USER INTERFACE;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84874863584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2442882.2442889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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