Syllable-based speech recognition for Amharic

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 33-40

  Abate, Solomon Teferra ^a   Menzel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Natural Language Systems Groups   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LINGUISTICS;

HIDDEN MARKOV; MARKOV MODELING; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SEMITIC LANGUAGES; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SYLLABLE STRUCTURES; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84962514245     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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