Method and system for efficient spoken term detection using confusion networks

BED Kingsbury, HK Kuo, L Mangu, H Soltau - US Patent 9,196,243, 2015 - Google Patents
US9196243B2 - Method and system for efficient spoken term detection using confusion
networks - Google Patents US9196243B2 - Method and system for efficient spoken term …

Speech recognition and keyword spotting for low-resource languages: Babel project research at cued

MJF Gales, KM Knill, A Ragni… - … workshop on spoken …, 2014 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Recently there has been increased interest in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and
Key Word Spotting (KWS) systems for low resource languages. One of the driving forces for …

Data augmentation for low resource languages

A Ragni, KM Knill, SP Rath… - … 2014: 15th annual …, 2014 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Recently there has been interest in the approaches for training speech recognition systems
for languages with limited resources. Under the IARPA Babel program such resources have …

Investigation of multilingual deep neural networks for spoken term detection

KM Knill, MJF Gales, SP Rath… - … IEEE Workshop on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of high-performance speech processing systems for low-resource
languages is a challenging area. One approach to address the lack of resources is to make …

System combination and score normalization for spoken term detection

J Mamou, J Cui, X Cui, MJF Gales… - … , Speech and Signal …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spoken content in languages of emerging importance needs to be searchable to provide
access to the underlying information. In this paper, we investigate the problem of extending …

[PDF][PDF] Data augmentation, feature combination, and multilingual neural networks to improve ASR and KWS performance for low-resource languages.

Z Tüske, P Golik, D Nolden, R Schlüter, H Ney - Interspeech, 2014 - academia.edu
This paper presents the progress of acoustic models for lowresourced languages
(Assamese, Bengali, Haitian Creole, Lao, Zulu) developed within the second evaluation …

[PDF][PDF] The IBM speech activity detection system for the DARPA RATS program.

G Saon, S Thomas, H Soltau, S Ganapathy… - Interspeech, 2013 - isca-archive.org
We present the IBM speech activity detection system that was fielded in the phase 2
evaluation of the DARPA RATS (robust automatic transcription of speech) program. Key …

Joint decoding of tandem and hybrid systems for improved keyword spotting on low resource languages

H Wang, A Ragni, MJF Gales, KM Knill… - … 2015: 16th Annual …, 2015 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Keyword spotting (KWS) for low-resource languages has drawn increasing attention in
recent years. The state-of-the-art KWS systems are based on lattices or Confusion Networks …

Language independent and unsupervised acoustic models for speech recognition and keyword spotting

KM Knill, MJF Gales, A Ragni, SP Rath - 2014 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Develo** high-performance speech processing systems for low-resource languages is
very challenging. One approach to address the lack of resources is to make use of data from …

Multilingual MRASTA features for low-resource keyword search and speech recognition systems

Z Tüske, D Nolden, R Schlüter… - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the application of hierarchical MRASTA bottleneck (BN) features for
under-resourced languages within the IARPA Babel project. Through multilingual training of …