Baum-Welch training for segment-based speech recognition

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 43-48

  Shu, Han ^a   Hetherington, I Lee ^a   Glass, James ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; SPEECH; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

DURATION MODELING; FINITE STATE TRANSDUCERS; OBSERVATION SPACE; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; SEGMENTATION PATHS; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; TRAINING ALGORITHMS; TRAINING PROCEDURES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84886931471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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