HOW EFFECTIVE IS UNSUPERVISED DATA COLLECTION FOR CHILDREN'S SPEECH RECOGNITION?

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Aist, G ^a   Chan, P ^a   Huang, X ^b   Jiang, L ^b   Kennedy, R ^a   Latimer, D ^a   Mostow, J ^a   Yeung, C ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS MODEL; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; CHILDREN'S SPEECH RECOGNITION; DATA COLLECTION; READING TUTORS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ART; SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE; UNSUPERVISED DATA;

SPEECH;

EID: 84946757864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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