SYLLABLE-BASED AND HYBRID ACOUSTIC MODELS FOR AMHARIC SPEECH RECOGNITION

3rd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, SLTU 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5-10

  Tachbelie, Martha Yifiru ^a   Abate, Solomon Teferra ^a   Besacier, Laurent ^a   Rossato, Solange ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Amharic; hybrid acoustic models; morpheme based speech recognition; syllable based acoustic models

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS MODEL; AMHARIC; HYBRID ACOUSTIC MODEL; LANGUAGE MODEL; MORPHEME-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SYLLABLE-BASED ACOUSTIC MODEL; TRIPHONES; WORD ERROR RATE REDUCTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85071192719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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