Predicting automatic speech recognition performance using prosodic cues

1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2000 - co-located with 6th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, ANLP 2000 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 218-225

  Litman, Diane J ^a   Hirschberg, Julia B ^a   Swerts, Marc ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Institute for Perception Research Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ACOUSTIC CONFIDENCE SCORES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; INTERACTION STRATEGY; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

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EID: 85029930138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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