This paper introduces a discriminative extension to whole-word point process modeling techniques. Meant to circumvent the strong independence assumptions of their generative prede...
In this paper we present a hypothesis-verification approach for a Spanish Recognizer of continuously spelled names over the telephone. We give a detailed description of the spelli...
We present a maximally streamlined approach to learning HMM-based acoustic models for automatic speech recognition. In our approach, an initial monophone HMM is iteratively refin...
The use of the PC and Internet for placing telephone calls will present new opportunities to capture vast amounts of un-transcribed speech for a particular speaker. This paper inv...