Audio-to-text alignment for speech recognition with very limited resources

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1405-1409

  Anguera, Xavier ^a   Luque, Jordi ^a   Gracia, Ciro ^a,b  

^a TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asr; Low resources; Phonetic alignment; Text to speech alignment

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ASR; LOW-RESOURCES; NORMALIZED TEXTS; PHONETIC ALIGNMENT; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; TARGET LANGUAGE; TEXT TO SPEECH; TRAINING DATABASE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84910072484     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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