Improving domain-independent cloud-based speech recognition with domain-dependent phonetic post-processing

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1529-1535

  Twiefel, Johannes ^a   Baumann, Timo ^a   Heinrich, Stefan ^a   Wermter, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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CLOUD-BASED; POST PROCESSING;

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