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INTERSPEECH
2010
13 years 18 days ago
FSM-based pronunciation modeling using articulatory phonological code
According to articulatory phonology, the gestural score is an invariant speech representation. Though the timing schemes, i.e., the onsets and offsets, of the gestural activations...
Chi Hu, Xiaodan Zhuang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
TASLP
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Using Articulatory Representations to Detect Segmental Errors in Nonnative Pronunciation
Abstract--Motivated by potential applications in second-language pedagogy, we present a novel approach to using articulatory information to improve automatic detection of typical p...
Joseph Tepperman, Shrikanth Narayanan
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Information retrieval methods for automatic speech recognition
In this paper, we use information retrieval (IR) techniques to improve a speech recognition (ASR) system. The potential benefits include improved speed, accuracy, and scalability...
Xiaoqiang Xiao, Jasha Droppo, Alex Acero
NAACL
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Names Using Speak and Spell Mode in Spoken Dialogue Systems
This paper describes a novel multi-stage recognition procedure for deducing the spelling and pronunciation of an open set of names. The overall goal is the automatic acquisition o...
Grace Chung, Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang
ACL
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Acoustic Sub-word Units
Accurate unsupervised learning of phonemes of a language directly from speech is demonstrated via an algorithm for joint unsupervised learning of the topology and parameters of a ...
Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Emman...