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Appropriate baseline values for HMM-based speech recognition

Author: Barnard, E ; Gouws, E ; Wolvaardt, K ; Kleynhans, N Date: Nov 2004 A number of issues realted to the development of speech-recognition systems with Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are discussed. A set of systematic experiments using the HTK toolkit and the TMIT database are used to elucidate matters such as the ... Read more
Bootstrapping pronunciation dictionaries: practical issues

Author: Davel, MH ; Barnard, E Date: Sep 2005 Bootstrapping techniques are an efficient way to develop electronic pronunciation dictionaries, but require fast system response to be practical for medium-to-large lexicons. In addition, user errors are inevitable during this process, and ... Read more
Efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: human factors factors during bootstrapping

Author: Davel, MH ; Barnard, E Date: Oct 2004 Bootstrapping techniques have significant potential for the efficient generation of linguistic resources such as electronic pronunciation dictionaries. The authors describe a system and an approach to bootstrapping for the development of such ... Read more
Efficient generation of pronunciation dictionaries: machine learning factors during bootstrapping

Author: Davel, MH ; Barnard, E Date: Oct 2004 The authors focus on factors related to the underlying rule-extraction algorithms, and demonstrate variants of the Dynamically Expanding Context algorithm, which are beneficial for this application. They show that continuous updating of the ... Read more
Error analysis of a public domain pronunciation dictionary

Author: Martirosian, O ; Davel, M Date: Nov 2007 The authors explore pattern recognition techniques for verifying the correctness of a pronunciation lexicon, focusing on techniques that require limited human interaction. They evaluate the British English Example Pronunciation (BEEP) dictionary ... Read more
Pronunciation dictionary development in resource-scarce environments

Author: Davel, M ; Martirosian, O Date: Sep 2009 The deployment of speech technology systems in the developing world is often hampered by the lack of appropriate linguistic resources. A suitable pronunciation dictionary is one such resource that can be difficult to obtain for lesser-resourced ... Read more
Verifying pronunciation dictionaries using conflict analysis

Author: Davel, MH ; De Wet, Febe Date: Sep 2010 The authors describe a new language-independent technique for automatically identifying errors in an electronic pronunciation dictionary by analyzing the source of conflicting patterns directly.They evaluate the effectiveness of the technique ... Read more

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