Data Mining for Detecting Errors in Dictation Speech Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 681-688

  Zhou, Lina ^a   Shi, Yongmei ^b   Feng, Jinjuan ^a   Sears, Andrew ^a  

^a Baltimore County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Document retrieval; recognition; speech; speech data mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008024850     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.851874     Document Type: Article

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