Validation of phonetic transcriptions based on recognition performance

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1545-1548

  Van Bael, Christophe ^a   Binnenpoorte, Diana ^a   Strik, Helmer ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Henk ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTIONS; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; VALIDATION APPROACH; VALIDATION CRITERIA; WORD ERROR RATE;

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EID: 85009198145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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