DEVELOPMENTS OF SWAHILI RESOURCES FOR AN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM

3rd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, SLTU 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 94-101

  Gelas, Hadrien ^a,b   Besacier, Laurent ^b   Pellegrino, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

automatic speech recognition; speech resources; Swahili; under resourced languages

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; DIGITAL LEVELS; EAST AFRICA; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH RESOURCES; SWAHILUS; TEXT CORPORA; UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84910073075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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