Enhanced polyphone decision tree adaptation for Accented Speech Recognition

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 1900-1903

  Nallasamy, Udhyakumar ^a   Metze, Florian ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a,b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accent adaptation; Automatic speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCENT ADAPTATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MODEL BASED APPROACH; UNDER-REPRESENTED; WORD ERROR RATE;

DATA MINING; DECISION TREES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84878544116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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