Technique for automatic sentence level alignment of long speech and transcripts

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1516-1519

  Ahmed, Imran ^a   Kopparapu, Sunil Kumar ^a  

^a TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

Long audio; Resource deficient; Speech corpus; Speech text alignment; Syllable

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LONG AUDIO; LONG DURATION; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; RESOURCE DEFICIENT; SENTENCE LEVEL; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINE; SYLLABLE;

SPEECH;

EID: 84906264108     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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