Conditional and joint models for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2033-2036

  Chen, Stanley F ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY;

BEST MODEL; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; JOINT MODELS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELING; N-GRAM MODELING; PRONUNCIATION LEXICON;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009227369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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