Recent progress in the decoding of non-native speech with multilingual acoustic models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3105-3108

  Fischer, V ^a   Janke, E ^a   Kunzmann, S ^a  

^a IBM   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

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

COMBINATION METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; MULTILINGUAL ACOUSTIC MODELS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; PROPER MODELING; RECENT PROGRESS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009082944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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