Language-independent OCR using a continuous speech recognition system

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 1996, Pages 99-103

  Schwartz, Richard ^a   Lapre, Christopher ^a   Makhoul, John ^a   Raphael, Christopher ^a   Zhao, Ying ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

character recognition; hidden Markov models; OCR; speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; EXPERIMENTS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARABIC OCR; CHARACTER ERROR RATES; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; IDENTICAL SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; PRE-SEGMENTATION; WASHINGTON; WORD LEVEL;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84898819901     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.1996.546802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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