Discriminative semi-supervised training for keyword search in low resource languages

2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 440-445

  Hsiao, Roger ^a   Ng, Tim ^a   Grézl, František ^b   Karakos, Damianos ^a   Tsakalidis, Stavros ^a   Nguyen, Long ^a   Schwartz, Richard ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

keyword spotting; low resource languages; semi supervised training

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; KEYWORD SPOTTING; LANGUAGE EVALUATIONS; LOW RESOURCE LANGUAGES; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SEMI-SUPERVISED METHOD; SEMI-SUPERVISED TRAININGS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84893705111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2013.6707770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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