The development of the Cambridge university alignment systems for the multi-genre broadcast challenge

2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2015 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 647-653

  Lanchantin, P ^a   Gales, M J F ^a   Karanasou, P ^a   Liu, X ^a   Qian, Y ^a   Wang, L ^a   Woodland, P C ^a   Zhang, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment; Lightly Supervised Training; Multi genre Broadcast transcription

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ALIGNMENT SYSTEM; AUDIO SEGMENTATION; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; CONFIDENCE SCORE; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; SPLIT POINTS; SUPERVISED TRAININGS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84964556219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2015.7404857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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