This paper describes the design and collection of NameDat, a database containing English proper names spoken by native Norwegians. The database was designed to cover the typical a...
Abstract. This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2007 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. For the processing of man...
In this paper two aspects of generating and using phonetic Arabic dictionaries are described. First, the use of single pronunciation acoustic models in the context of Arabic large...
Frank Diehl, Mark J. F. Gales, Marcus Tomalin, Phi...
Conversational speech exhibits considerable pronunciation variability, which has been shown to have a detrimental effect on the accuracy of automatic speech recognition. There hav...
Murat Saraclar, Harriet J. Nock, Sanjeev Khudanpur
This paper suggests an alternative solution for the task of spoken document retrieval (SDR). The proposed system runs retrieval on multi-level transcriptions (word and phone) prod...
Shan Jin, Hemant Misra, Thomas Sikora, Joemon M. J...