Prosody dependent speech recognition with explicit duration modelling at intonational phrase boundaries

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 393-396

  Chen, K ^a   Borys, S ^a   Hasegawa Johnson, M ^a   Cole, J ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LABELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ACOUSTIC MODELLING; BOSTON UNIVERSITY; BOUNDARY RECOGNITION; EXPLICIT DURATION; INTONATIONAL PHRASE; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; PRONUNCIATION MODELING; PROSODIC BOUNDARY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009211730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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