Lower WERs do not guarantee better transcriptions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1721-1724

  Kessens, Judith M ^a   Strik, Helmer ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION; CONTEXT INDEPENDENT; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); WORD ERROR RATE;

TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 85009074865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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