ABSTRACT Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is an active field of research due to its
large number of applications and the proliferation of interfaces or computing devices that …

Although much is known about how speech is produced, and research into speech
production has resulted in measured articulatory data, feature systems of different kinds, and …

Function words, especially frequently occurring ones such as (the, that, and, and of), vary
widely in pronunciation. Understanding this variation is essential both for cognitive modeling …

In 1543, the Polish astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus, determined the heliocentric design of
the solar system.'Copernicus was motivated in large part by the conviction that Claudius …

Graphical models provide a promising paradigm to study both existing and novel techniques
for automatic speech recognition. This paper first provides a brief overview of graphical …

This paper proposes a novel regularized adaptation method to improve the performance of
multi-accent Mandarin speech recognition task. The acoustic model is based on long short …

This paper describes a formal model for incorporating prosody in the speech recognition
process, both for improving word recognition directly and for jointly recognizing words and …

There is a vast body of literature on LVCSR research and some limitation is necessary in the
scope of this article. We will focus primarily on the techniques that have been successful in …

In order to help understand why gains in pronunciation modeling have proven so elusive,
we investigated which kinds of pronunciation variation are well captured by triphone models …

This paper focuses on modeling pronunciation variation in two different ways: data-derived
and knowledge-based. The knowledge-based approach consists of using phonological …