The 2012 KIT and KIT-NAIST English ASR Systems for the IWSLT Evaluation

2012 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-90

  Saam, Christian ^a   Mohr, Christian ^a   Kilgour, Kevin ^a   Heck, Michael ^a   Sperber, Matthias ^a   Kubo, Keigo ^b   Stüker, Sebastian ^a   Sakti, Sakriani ^b   Neubig, Graham ^b   Toda, Tomoki ^b   Nakamura, Satoshi ^b   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

evaluation system; IWSLT; speech recognition; system development; TED talks

Indexed keywords

CONFUSION NETWORKS; EVALUATION SYSTEM; FRONT END; IWSLT; SPEECH-TO-TEXT SYSTEM; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TED TALK;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906235762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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