The 2011 KIT English ASR System for the IWSLT Evaluation

2011 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 94-97

  Stüker, Sebastian ^a   Kilgour, Kevin ^a   Saam, Christian ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

CONFUSION NETWORKS; FRONT END; SPEECH-TO-TEXT SYSTEM; TEST SETS;

EID: 85133205526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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