Very large vocabulary proper name recognition for directory assistance

F. Bechet1, R. de Mori1, G. Subsol1
1LIA-University of Avignon, France

Tóm tắt

This paper deals with the difficult task of recognition of a large vocabulary of proper names in a directory assistance application. After a presentation of the related work, it introduces a methodology for rescoring the N-best hypotheses generated by a first step recognition. First experiments give encouraging results and several topics for future research are presented.

Từ khóa

#Vocabulary #Acoustic distortion #Speech recognition #Error analysis #Lattices #Research and development #Robustness #Automatic speech recognition #Hidden Markov models

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