Woodland, P.C., Hain, T. orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-3464, Moore, G.L. et al. (4 more authors) (1999) The 1998 HTK broadcast news transcription system: development and results. In: Proceedings of the 1999 DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop. The 1999 DARPA Broadcast News Transcription and Understanding Workshop, 28 Feb - 03 Mar 1999, Herndon, VA, United States. Morgan Kauffman Publishers , Herndon, VA
Abstract
This paper presents the development of the HTK broadcast news transcription system for the November 1998 Hub4 evaluation. Relative to the previous year’s system The system a number of features were added including vocal tract length normalisation; cluster-based variance normalisation; double the quantity of acoustic training data; interpolated word level language models to combine text sources; increased broadcast news language model training data; and an extra adaptation stage using a full-variance transform. Overall these changes to the system reduced the error rate by 13% on the 1997 evaluation data and the final system had an overall word error rate of 13.8% for the 1998 evaluation data sets.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 1999 The Author(s). |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2024 10:39 |
Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2024 10:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Morgan Kauffman Publishers |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:216471 |