Title
Modelling unknown words in spontaneous speech
Abstract
We describe our experiments with different acoustic and language models for unknown words in spontaneous speech. We propose a syllable based approach for the acoustic modelling of new words. Several models of different degrees of complexity are evaluated against each other. We show that the modelling of new words can decrease the error rate in the recognition of spontaneous human-to-human speech. In addition, the new word models can be used as a measure of confidence capable of detecting errors in the recognition of spontaneous speech. Although the best performance is reached by applying phonetic a-priori knowledge in the design of the acoustic models, a pure data-driven approach is proposed which performs only slightly less efficiently.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1109/ICASSP.1996.541150
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1996. ICASSP-96. Conference Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
acoustic signal processing,natural languages,speech processing,speech recognition,acoustic modelling,acoustic models,confidence measure,data driven approach,error detection,error rate reduction,experiments,language models,performance,phonetic a-priori knowledge,spontaneous speech recognition,unknown words modelling
Speech processing,Computer science,Word error rate,Speech recognition,Error detection and correction,Natural language,Syllable,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Decoding methods,Language model
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1
1520-6149
0-7803-3192-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
2.10
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kemp, T.182.10
Jusek, A.282.10