Formalizing expert knowledge for developing accurate speech recognizers

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1121-1125

  Kumar, Anuj ^a   Metze, Florian ^a   Wang, Wenyi ^a   Kam, Matthew ^a,b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Knowledge base; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC CONDITIONS; ADAPTATION; APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES; KNOWLEDGE BASE; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RULE-BASED KNOWLEDGE; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906248285     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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