The KIT-NAIST (Contrastive) English ASR System for IWSLT 2012

2012 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 91-95

  Heck, Michael ^a   Kubo, Keigo ^b   Sperber, Matthias ^a   Sakti, Sakriani ^b   Stüker, Sebastian ^a   Saam, Christian ^a   Kilgour, Kevin ^a   Mohr, Christian ^a   Neubig, Graham ^b   Toda, Tomoki ^b   Nakamura, Satoshi ^b   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS MODELS; INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGIES; MULTIPASS SYSTEMS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SEMI-CONTINUOUS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TEST SETS;

EID: 85133179054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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