Minimum risk acoustic clustering for multilingual acoustic model combination

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Vergyri, Dimitra ^a   Tsakalidis, Stavros ^a   Byrne, William ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC APPROACHES; COMBINATION WEIGHTS; DYNAMIC COMBINATION; MODEL COMBINATION; MULTILINGUAL ACOUSTIC MODELS; PIECE-WISE CONSTANTS; ROBUST PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TREE-STRUCTURED;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009113885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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