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In this paper, we present an algorithm for speech input statistical translation. This algorithm is a dynamic-programming based algorithm, which uses a word graph in the input as a representation of the acoustic of a given utterance. A beam-search implementation of this algorithm has been made and experimental results with the so called EuTrans-I task are presented.
Work partially supported by the Europan Union under IST Programme (IST-2001-32091) and by the Spanish CICYT under grant TIC 2003-08681-C02-02
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García-Varea, I., Sanchis, A., Casacuberta, F. (2004). A Decoding Algorithm for Speech Input Statistical Translation. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3206. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30120-2_39
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