The Cambridge university 2014 BOLT conversational telephone Mandarin Chinese lvcsr system for speech translation

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2015-January, Issue , 2015, Pages 3145-3149

  Liu, Xunying ^a   Flego, Federico ^a   Wang, Linlin ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a   Gales, Mark ^a   Woodland, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Character LM; Conversational speech transcription; RNNLM; Speech translation; System combination

Indexed keywords

BOLTS; DECODING; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TELEPHONE SETS; TRANSCRIPTION;

CHARACTER LM; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; RNNLM; SPEECH TRANSLATION; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84959109976     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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