In this paper we describe our efforts to build a Mandarin Chinese voice search system. We describe our strategies for data collection, language, lexicon and acoustic modeling, as ...
In this work, the RWTH automatic speech recognition systems for English and German for the second Quaero evaluation campaign 2009 are presented. The systems are designed to transc...
While automatic methods for phonetic segmentation of speech can help with rapid annotation of corpora, most methods rely either on manually segmented data to initially train the p...
As a child acquires language, he or she: perceives acoustic information in his or her surrounding environment; identifies portions of the ambient acoustic information as languager...
Andrew R. Plummer, Mary E. Beckman, Mikhail Belkin...
Alignment combination (symmetrization) has been shown to be useful for improving Machine Translation (MT) models. Most existing alignment combination techniques are based on heuri...