This paper investigates the correlation between acoustic confidence scores as returned by speech recognizers with recognition quality. We report the results of two machine learni...
This paper presents details of the RWTH large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system used in the VERBMOBIL spontaneous speech translation system. In particular, we report...
Stephan Kanthak, Sirko Molau, Achim Sixtus, Ralf S...
We are interested in retrieving information from conversational speech corpora, such as call-center data. This data comprises spontaneous speech conversations with low recording q...
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems continue to make errors during search when handling various phenomena including noise, pronunciation variation, and out of vocabulary (O...
Christopher M. White, Geoffrey Zweig, Lukas Burget...
This paper looks at a parsing-based alternative to word error rate (WER) for optimizing recognition, SParseval, hypothesizing that it may be a better objective for applications su...
Dustin Hillard, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Mary P. Harper, Mar...