Librispeech: An ASR corpus based on public domain audio books

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 5206-5210

  Panayotov, Vassil ^a   Chen, Guoguo ^a   Povey, Daniel ^a   Khudanpur, Sanjeev ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus; LibriVox; Speech Recognition

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; CORPUS; CORPUS-BASED; LANGUAGE MODEL; LIBRIVOX; PUBLIC DOMAINS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; WALL STREET JOURNAL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946015916     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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