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Issues in Practical Large Vocabulary Isolated Word Recognition: The IBM Tangora System

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Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition

Part of the book series: The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science ((SECS,volume 355))

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The IBM TANGORA was the first real-time PC-based large vocabulary isolated word dictation system [14]. Its development and eventual productization in the form of the IBM Personal Dictation System required substantial innovation in all areas of speech recognition, from signal processing to language modeling. This chapter describes some of the algorithmic techniques that had to be developed in order to create a dictation system that could actually be used by real users to create text.

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Das, S.K., Picheny, M.A. (1996). Issues in Practical Large Vocabulary Isolated Word Recognition: The IBM Tangora System. In: Lee, CH., Soong, F.K., Paliwal, K.K. (eds) Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 355. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1367-0_19

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