Edinburgh Research Archive logo

Edinburgh Research Archive

University of Edinburgh homecrest
View Item 
  •   ERA Home
  • Centre for Speech Technology Research
  • CSTR publications
  • View Item
  •   ERA Home
  • Centre for Speech Technology Research
  • CSTR publications
  • View Item
  • Login
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Comparison between expert listeners and continuous speech recognizers in selecting pronunciation variants.

View/Open
wester.1999.1.pdf (46.23Kb)
Date
1999
Author
Wester, Mirjam
Kessens, Judith M
Cucchiarini, Catia
Strik, Helmer
Metadata
Show full item record
Abstract
In this paper, the performance of an automatic transcription tool is evaluated. The transcription tool is a continuous speech recognizer (CSR) which can be used to select pronunciation variants (i.e. detect insertions and deletions of phones). The performance of the CSR was compared to a reference transcription based on the judgments of expert listeners. We investigated to what extent the degree of agreement between the listeners and the CSR was affected by employing various sets of phone models (PMs). Overall, the PMs perform more similarly to the listeners when pronunciation variation is modeled. However, the various sets of PMs lead to different results for insertion and deletion processes. Furthermore, we found that to a certain degree, word error rates can be used to predict which set of PMs to use in the transcription tool.
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1192
Collections
  • CSTR publications

Library & University Collections HomeUniversity of Edinburgh Information Services Home
Privacy & Cookies | Takedown Policy | Accessibility | Contact
Privacy & Cookies
Takedown Policy
Accessibility
Contact
feed RSS Feeds

RSS Feed not available for this page

 

 

All of ERACommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsPublication TypeSponsorSupervisorsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsPublication TypeSponsorSupervisors
LoginRegister

Library & University Collections HomeUniversity of Edinburgh Information Services Home
Privacy & Cookies | Takedown Policy | Accessibility | Contact
Privacy & Cookies
Takedown Policy
Accessibility
Contact
feed RSS Feeds

RSS Feed not available for this page