Automatic speech recognition for under-resourced languages: A survey

Speech Communication

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 85-100

  Besacier, Laurent ^a   Barnard, Etienne ^b   Karpov, Alexey ^c   Schultz, Tanja ^d  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c ST PETERSBURG INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS AND AUTOMATION   (Russian Federation)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic pronunciation generation; Automatic speech recognition (ASR); Crosslingual acoustic modeling and adaptation; Language portability; Lexical modeling; Speech and language resources acquisition; Statistical language modeling; Under resourced languages

Indexed keywords

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC PRONUNCIATION GENERATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; LANGUAGE PORTABILITIES; LANGUAGE RESOURCES; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELING; UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84893667016     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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