Quantifying the value of pronunciation lexicons for keyword search in lowresource languages

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 8560-8564

  Chen, Guoguo ^a   Khudanpur, Sanjeev ^a   Povey, Daniel ^a   Trmal, Jan ^a   Yarowsky, David ^a   Yilmaz, Oguz ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Information Retrieval; Keyword Search; Morphology; Speech Recognition; Speech Synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; GRAPHEME TO PHONEMES; KEYWORD SEARCH; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; LEXICAL COVERAGE; LOW RESOURCE LANGUAGES; PRONUNCIATION LEXICON; YIELD-INCREASING;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MORPHOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84890454226     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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