USING ACCENT-SPECIFIC PRONUNCIATION MODELLING FOR IMPROVED LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2367-2370

  Humphries, J J ^a   Woodland, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

BRITISH ENGLISH; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; METHOD OF MODELING; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; PRONUNCIATION MODELLING; PRONUNCIATION VARIATION; RECOGNITION PROCESS; SPEAKER INDEPENDENTS; WALL STREET JOURNAL;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85032275702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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