Pronunciation modeling for names of foreign origin

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 429-434

  Maison, Benoît ^a   Chen, Stanley F ^a   Cohen, Paul S ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; GRAPHEME TO PHONEMES; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; NAME RECOGNITION; NATIVE LANGUAGE; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; PRONUNCIATION MODELING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946742164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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