Low-resource keyword search strategies for Tamil

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 5366-5370

  Chen, Nancy F ^a   Ni, Chongjia ^a   Chen, I Fan ^b   Sivadas, Sunil ^a   Pham, Van Tung ^c   Xu, Haihua ^c   Xiao, Xiong ^c   Lau, Tze Siong ^c   Leow, Su Jun ^c   Lim, Boon Pang ^a   Leung, Cheung Chi ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Lee, Chin Hui ^b   Goh, Alvina ^c   Chng, Eng Siong ^c   Ma, Bin ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

active learning; agglutinative languages; deep neural network (DNN); inflective languages; keyword spotting; morphology; semi supervised learning; Spoken term detection (STD); under resourced languages; unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; MORPHOLOGY; SEARCH ENGINES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SUPERVISED LEARNING; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGE; KEYWORD SPOTTING; SEMI- SUPERVISED LEARNING; SPOKEN TERM DETECTION (STD); UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 84946036768     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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