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Issues in generating pronunciation dictionaries for voice interfaces to spatial databases

Ngan et al., 1997

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5253611815196503142
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Ngan J
Picone J
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Proceedings IEEE SOUTHEASTCON'97.'Engineering the New Century'

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ln speech recognition research, increasing emphasis has been placed on generating pronunciation dictionaries for spontaneous human-computer interactions. We present a review of our strategies for developing lexicons for three distinct voice interfaces:(1) …
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