Data-driven pronunciation modeling for ASR using acoustic subword units

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2549-2552

  Spiess, Thurid ^a,b   Wrede, Britta ^a,c   Fink, Gernot A ^a   Kummert, Franz ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; DISTANCE MEASURE; PRONUNCIATION MODELING; PRONUNCIATION VARIANTS; PRONUNCIATION VARIATION; STATE SPLITTING ALGORITHM; SUB-WORD UNITS; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84976243916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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