Comparing different acoustic modeling techniques for multilingual boosting

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1190-1193

  Imseng, David ^a,b   Dines, John ^a   Motlicek, Petr ^a   Garner, Philip N ^a   Bourlard, Hervé ^a,b  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Multilingual acoustic modeling; Speech recognition; Under resourced languages

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELING; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; POSTERIOR FEATURES; STATE CLUSTERING; TARGET LANGUAGE; UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES; UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND MODEL;

DECISION TREES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84878401202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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