Transcribing broadcast news with the 1997 Abbot System

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 917-920

  Cook, Gary ^a   Robinson, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELLING; BROADCAST NEWS; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; RADIO PROGRAMMES; SPEAKING STYLES; SYLLABLE BOUNDARIES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RADIO BROADCASTING; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84892178304     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.675415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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