Evaluation and collection of proper name pronunciations online

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 247-254

  Llitjós, Ariadna Font ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PRONUNCIATION MODELING; SIMILAR MODELS; WEB-BASED INTERFACE;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 85030410590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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