Automatic Generation Of Pronunciation Lexicons For Mandarin (2000)
W. Byrne, V. Venkataramani, T. Kamm, T. F. Zheng, Z. Song, P. Fung, ...
attempts to improve recognition accuracy by identifying and modeling pronunciations that are not in the ASR systems pronunciation lexicon. Pronunciation variability in spontaneous Mandarin is studied...
Initial Evaluation Of Hidden Dynamic Models On Conversational Speech (1999)
J. Picone, S. Pike, R. Regan, T. Kamm, J. Bridle, L. Deng, ...
Conversational speech recognition is a challenging problem primarily because speakers rarely fully articulate sounds. A successful speech recognition approach must infer intended spectral targets...