Web-based tools and methods for rapid pronunciation dictionary creation

Speech Communication

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 101-118

  Schlippe, Tim ^a   Ochs, Sebastian ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multilingual speech recognition; Pronunciation modeling; Rapid bootstrapping; Web derived pronunciations

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; QUALITY CONTROL; WEB CRAWLER;

GRAPHEME TO PHONEMES; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MULTILINGUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; PRONUNCIATION MODELING; RAPID BOOTSTRAPPING; WEB-DERIVED PRONUNCIATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84893706991     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2013.06.015     Document Type: Article

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