---
_id: '11787'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We address the problem of automatically finding an acoustic representation
(i.e. a transcription) of unknown words as a sequence of subword units, given
a few sample utterances of the unknown words, and an inventory of speaker-independent
subword units. The problem arises if a user wants to add his own vocabulary to
a speaker-independent recognition system simply by speaking the words a few times.
Two methods are investigated which are both based on a maximum-likelihood formulation
of the problem. The experimental results show that both automatic transcription
methods provide a good estimate of the acoustic models of unknown words. The recognition
error rates obtained with such models in a speaker-independent recognition task
are clearly better than those resulting from separate whole-word models. They
are comparable with the performance of transcriptions drawn from a dictionary.
author:
- first_name: Reinhold
full_name: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold
id: '242'
last_name: Haeb-Umbach
- first_name: P.
full_name: Beyerlein, P.
last_name: Beyerlein
- first_name: E.
full_name: Thelen, E.
last_name: Thelen
citation:
ama: 'Haeb-Umbach R, Beyerlein P, Thelen E. Automatic Transcription of Unknown Words
in a Speech Recognition System. In: ICASSP, Detroit. ; 1995.'
apa: Haeb-Umbach, R., Beyerlein, P., & Thelen, E. (1995). Automatic Transcription
of Unknown Words in a Speech Recognition System. In ICASSP, Detroit.
bibtex: '@inproceedings{Haeb-Umbach_Beyerlein_Thelen_1995, title={Automatic Transcription
of Unknown Words in a Speech Recognition System}, booktitle={ICASSP, Detroit},
author={Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold and Beyerlein, P. and Thelen, E.}, year={1995} }'
chicago: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold, P. Beyerlein, and E. Thelen. “Automatic Transcription
of Unknown Words in a Speech Recognition System.” In ICASSP, Detroit, 1995.
ieee: R. Haeb-Umbach, P. Beyerlein, and E. Thelen, “Automatic Transcription of Unknown
Words in a Speech Recognition System,” in ICASSP, Detroit, 1995.
mla: Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold, et al. “Automatic Transcription of Unknown Words in
a Speech Recognition System.” ICASSP, Detroit, 1995.
short: 'R. Haeb-Umbach, P. Beyerlein, E. Thelen, in: ICASSP, Detroit, 1995.'
date_created: 2019-07-12T05:28:15Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:51:08Z
department:
- _id: '54'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
url: https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/nt/pubs/1995/ICASSP_1995_Haeb1_paper.pdf
oa: '1'
publication: ICASSP, Detroit
status: public
title: Automatic Transcription of Unknown Words in a Speech Recognition System
type: conference
user_id: '44006'
year: '1995'
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