USING INTONATION TO CONSTRAIN LANGUAGE MODELS IN SPEECH RECOGNITION

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

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2763-2766

  Taylor, Paul ^a   King, Simon ^a   Isard, Stephen ^a   Wright, Helen ^a   Kowtko, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BI-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; DIALOG SPEECH; DIALOGUE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE MODEL; RECOGNITION STRATEGIES; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85135152214     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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