Likelihood combination and recognition output voting for the decoding of non-native speech with multilingual HMMs

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 489-492

  Fischer, V ^a   Janke, E ^a   Kunzmann, S ^a  

^a IBM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; COMBINATION METHOD; DIGIT RECOGNITION; FRAME-BASED; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRAINING DATA;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009243675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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