Broadcast news LM adaptation using contemporary texts

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 239-242

  Federico, Marcello ^a   Bertoldi, Nicola ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION METHODS; BROADCAST NEWS; LANGUAGE MODEL; NEWS DOMAIN; NEWS SOURCES; RELATIVE REDUCTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009064180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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