Eigentrigraphemes for under-resourced languages

Speech Communication

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 132-141

  Ko, Tom ^a   Mak, Brian ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Eigentrigrapheme; Eigentriphone; Grapheme; Regularization; Under resourced language; Weighted PCA

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS;

EIGENTRIGRAPHEME; EIGENTRIPHONE; GRAPHEME; REGULARIZATION; UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES; WEIGHTED PCA;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 84893697912     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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