Comparative study of boosting and non-boosting training for constructing ensembles of acoustic models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1885-1888

  Zhang, Rong ^a   Rudnicky, Alexander I ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; BOOSTING ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRAINING ALGORITHMS; VOTING SCHEMES; WEIGHTED VOTING; WORD ERROR RATE REDUCTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009198106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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